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The Complete E-Commerce Book, 2nd Edition
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The Complete E-Commerce Book, 2nd Edition

by Janice Reynolds
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
10h 46m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 7. Security

 

Even the lion must defend himself against gnats.

 
 --Anonymous

The Internet’s openness makes it the perfect platform for e-commerce — it offers an inexpensive mass communication media and an economy of scale for low-cost distribution. However, the lack of security of web-based transactions and the ease with which the privacy of online communications can be violated are e-commerce’s main stumbling blocks. Internet’s very openness means that all communication traveling over it is inherently difficult to secure. To make matters worse, hacking is an epidemic that is on the rise.

Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisors Group in Severna Park, Md., and author of “Corporate Espionage” (Prima Publishing, 1999) succinctly ...

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