PHP and MySQL® Web Development, Fourth Edition

15 E-commerce Security Issues

THIS CHAPTER DISCUSSES THE ROLE OF SECURITY in e-commerce. We discuss who might be interested in your information and how they might try to obtain it, the principles involved in creating a policy to avoid these kinds of problems, and some of the technologies available for safeguarding the security of a website including encryption, authentication, and tracking.

Key topics covered in this chapter include

  The importance of your information

  Security threats

  Creating a security policy

  Usability, performance, cost, ...