Chapter 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
Security policy creation
Usability, performance, cost, and security
Authentication principles
Authentication on your site
Encryption basics
Private key encryption
Public key encryption
Digital signatures
Digital certificates
Secure web servers
Auditing and logging
Firewalls ...
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