Web Commerce Security Design and Development

Foreword

The Internet has been changing our lives at a staggering pace. Thanks to the continuous stream of innovations in software the changes are only accelerating. In this era of global connectivity the new generation can hardly imagine the wide world without the Web.

The ubiquity of the Web has also enabled us to deliver services in ways inconceivable in the past. The breadth of what can be accomplished on the Web makes it the perfect and the most convenient platform to carry out commerce, pay, and get paid. The scale of electronic commerce growth is astonishing: PayPal transacted $3,380 every single second of the fourth quarter in 2010, a 28 percent yearly increase from the previous year!

With this growth comes the uncompromising consumer expectation for convenience, availability, and security of the services that they receive. It is the core mandate of any responsible company to facilitate a viable, reliable, and secure user experience: Hadi Nahari and Ron Krutz's book shows you how to create such a system.

At PayPal, we believe that in this highly integrated world our services must be provided the same way and irrespective of access channels: Whether it is a personal computer, mobile phone, tablet computer, Internet-connected television, or any other consumer electronic device, PayPal users are guaranteed an impeccable, easy, and safe experience. We design our solutions and deliver our services with those core values in mind: We believe our users deserve nothing less.

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