Web Commerce Security Design and Development

Foreword

Technology-driven innovation is changing the way consumers around the world shop and pay. E-commerce is evolving rapidly and traditional distinctions between online and offline shopping are blurring. Four trends are helping to shape new ways people shop: the emergence of mobile commerce, the influence of social media, the growth of digital goods, and the potential of technology to create more convenient and accessible local shopping options. Increasingly, we can find whatever we want, whenever we want, wherever we are.

In this extraordinarily exciting and dynamic global commerce environment, Hadi Nahari and Ron Krutz's book is both timely and topical. Web commerce security is fundamental to the future of how we will shop and pay. The Web is becoming integral to more aspects of our lives. In a world where consumers will move seamlessly across screens and devices to shop, pay, and connect, security is paramount.

At eBay, how we design, manage and scale our global commerce and payment platforms to ensure that security is embedded in a compelling user experience is critical to our success. And it should be top of mind for any company competing in today's wired, digital world.

Our global platforms at eBay and PayPal support nearly 190 million active accounts and users. Buyers and sellers transact $60 billion of gross merchandise volume on eBay worldwide each year. In 2010, consumers transacted nearly $2 billion of gross merchandise volume through our eBay mobile applications. ...