If you own a service based business and you primarily service your local area in the U.S you should consider firewall blocking every foreign country from accessing your site for various reasons, but primarily security.

If They Are Not Hacking, They Are Vending

Not every foreign country seeks to hack your website, but the ones that do not will likely attempt to sell you something. In other words, avoiding spam is another good reason why you should implement a firewall blocking foreign countries from entering your website.

High Income Areas in High Income States (California) are Frequently Targeted for Cyber Security Attacks

Allow me to walk you through what is currently going on with Businesse’s websites in high-income areas. Let us say you are a business in California and open up a WordPress website, within the first couple of weeks you will probably already have a few hundred failed attempts by foreign countries to breach your site. This does not always happen, but it happens often enough to where it’s now a major issue. Your WordPress dashboard even tells you how many times your website has denied access to someone for security reasons.

The sad truth is that most of these failed attempts come from outside countries looking to take control of your online presence and use extortion methods to profit. There can be other reasons for someone wanting to gain on granted access to your website not all of them are as nefarious as the scenario written above. However they’re often times is a motive of self gain. The worst attack consist of the hacker making you pay them to fix a problem that they created. When this happens sometimes it is more beneficial to seek out local professional help and see if they can fix whatever the hacker broke.

When you firewall block foreign Nations, it makes it harder for hackers to breach your websites infrastructure.

Firewall blocking foreign Nations can save you pay-per-click campaign dollars

Because you are a U.S service based company who deals with local clientele, your bottom line will never be affected by denying access to foreign web traffic. The whole purpose of a website (for most people) is to help capture leads and generate sales. If the website traffic is coming from a foreign they are not the locally based clients you seek. Therefore it is pointless to spend bandwith to allow foreign countries to view your site when all of your potential customers are in your area. In addition, if you are running pay-per-click advertisements you can avoid some common click fraud. (Click fraud occurs when a competitor hires remote workers to click your pay per click and social media advertisements without the intention of converting in order to deplete your ad spend budget without you ever gaining any results).

Therefore I say once more, it is beneficial to firewall block foreign countries from visiting your site if you are a service based company who services locally.

if you are not sure if you are affected by click fraud you may want to contact us.