1.1 Privacy/Confidentiality Page 2

2.0 What are the current attempts being made to

improve e-commerce security? Page 3

2.2 Secure Socket Layers (SSL) Page 3

2.6 Intrusion Detection Systems Page 5

3.0 How successful are these likely to be? Page 5

4.0 What is your overall assessment of the current state Page 5

5.0 Will I buy online now. Page 6

As we progress into the future e-commerce is becoming an important part of all businesses as they try to capture and enter new markets all over the world. However, there is a reluctance by many to embrace this technology simply because of the unknown and the main issue of security when trading over the

3.0 How successful are these likely to be?

The definition of a firewall according to http://home.verio.net/services/ssolutions.cfm Is a security device placed between a businesses private network and the public internet that moderates and documents requests for internal and external network data access according to the businesses custom security policy.

Virus scanning today seems to be a basic security measure taken by all online businesses, figure 1 shows that ninety percent are using virus scanning. Essentially viruses can do little harm to a computer system but they can also cause a great deal of destruction, in some instances altering information, wiping or corrupting hard drives which contain important information. Since email has become a major way of communicating, hackers are creating and programming viruses to cause havoc, attaching themselves to email and replicating themselves into address books, viruses are easily being spread over the internet. Therefore it is vital that any e-commerce business has the latest version of a virus scanner so that they lower the risk of their system becoming infected.

When a transaction has been made customers and clients need to reassured that the transaction has gone through. People can worry, especially when money transactions occur that money has been credited to a wrong account or to some other site. So businesses need to know a minute after a transaction that the transfer has occurred successfully, and to where it has been transferred.

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