Control E-commerce security

Abstract

Electronic commerce has been very popular in the recent years. However, security is one of the barriers, which affects the development of E-commerce. How should merchants of E-commerce solve this problem and maintain a secure environment for their customers? How do customers protect their confidential data when they are shopping on-line? This thesis discusses various common attacks, and presents the protection solutions according to those attacks. Because attacks may take place on the customers and the sellers site, the method of defense has been discussed from these two sides. Furthermore, this thesis has provided the basic plan for developing an E-commerce site, which includes E-commerce security policies design and disaster recovery plan. The goal of this thesis is to provide the basic security knowledge of E-commerce for merchants and customers, and help them to confidently run a safe E-business and conduct shopping online safely.