E-commerce Security Issues

Without trust, most prudent business operators and clients may decide to forgo use of the Internet and revert back to traditional methods of doing business. To counter this trend, the issues of network security at the ecommerce and customer sites must be constantly reviewed and appropriate countermeasures devised. These security measures must be implemented so that they do not inhibit or dissuade the intended e-commerce operation. This paper will discuss pertinent network and computer security issues and will present some of the threats to e-commerce and customer privacy. These threats originate from both hackers as well as the ecommerce site itself. A straightforward comparison could be made of the security weaknesses in the postal system vs. security weaknesses on the Net. The vulnerable spots in both cases are at the endpoints – the customer’s computer/network and the business’ servers/network. Information flowing in the conduit (trucks/planes and wires) is relatively immune ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Randy C. Marchany, Joseph G. Tront
• Keywords: Biometrics, Customer Privacy, HICSS 2002, Network Security, Security