Ecommerce security

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) is buying and selling of goods and services across the internet. The main advantages of these new trading methods are its rapidity and the two teams of the trading process can make the contract easily and in short given period of time. As business transaction move to electronic marketplace, most interactions will occur between strangers, due to billions of internet users and the fact that most of them do not share a common security domain. [1] Trust is an important issue in e-commerce, because unlike real world transactions, the retailer is not present in person during the transaction and the consumer is not dealing with a real person. It is just dealing with an interface. It is much easier for an entity to set up a website and an electronic payment processing system than a real world storefront. It is cheaper, faster and more transparent. It is also much more difficult for customers to determine the authenticity of websites. This makes it very difficult to trust that the retailers are who they claim to be. Trust is a mental shortcut that consumers can use when trying to reduce the uncertainty and complexity of transactions and relationships in e-commerce markets. Online it is difficult to connect identities with actual individuals. [13] In order to conduct secure transaction, a sufficient level of mutual trust must be established. E-commerce successes largely depend on gaining and maintain the trust and confidence of visitors. There have been several different technologies to deal with security in e-commerce. Encryption algorithms are the most effective security technology today. Many research papers have been discussed e-commerce security, and presented threats to e-commerce. These threats come from an actual attacker (obtaining credit card, bank account information; user name and password) or technological failure (poorly written program code or network not configured properly). These threats or vulnerabilities make e- commerce insecure and untrusted by people or organizations so as result, a robust and efficient security method are required [1] and The emergence of e-commerce has created new financial needs that in many cases cannot be effectively fulfilled by the traditional payment systems. Recognizing this, virtually all interested parties are exploring various types of electronic payment systems, issues surrounding electronic payment system and digital currency. Broadly, electronic payment systems can be classified into four categories: online electronic cash system, electronic check system, online credit card payment system, and smart cards based electronic payment system. Each payment system has its advantages and disadvantages for the customers and merchants. [3] In this paper we introduce E-commerce briefly and discussion about its security and Electronic cash systems and finally present some security treats.

کلیدواژه ها:

Electronic-commerce (E-commerce) ، security ، E-com types ، applications ، purpose ، technologies ، security issues ، protocol ، ssl ، set ، 3-D secure ، threat classification ، E-cash ، Authentication