E-Commerce Security Report: Threats, Mitigation, and Best Practices

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of e-commerce security, addressing critical aspects such as protection against unauthorized access, data breaches, and various forms of cyberattacks. The report meticulously examines the dimensions of e-commerce security, including non-repudiation, integrity, authenticity, privacy, and availability. It identifies core security issues like authentication, auditing, and authorization. The context of the problem is explored through payment transaction security, encryption standards, privacy concerns during transactions, and consumer privacy, including DDOS attacks. The report aims to discuss security aspects, client-side, server-side, and database security during e-commerce transactions, as well as threats, their analysis, and mitigation strategies. It proposes methods like client-side, server-side, and database server security implementations, along with communication protocols. The timeline includes encryption, SQL connections, and database server encryption. The report references key literature addressing inaccurate management, price manipulation, spam, malicious code, and DDOS attacks. It offers a comprehensive analysis of e-commerce security challenges and potential solutions.

E-Commerce Security
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E-Commerce Security
 Protection of e-commerce assets from unauthorized
use, access, destruction or alteration
 Dimensions of e-commerce security are: non-
repudiation, integrity, authenticity, privacy,
availability [1]
 The basic security issues are: authentication,
auditing and authorization

Context of the Problem
 Security aspects in relation to transaction of
payments
 Security within encryption standards [2]
 Privacy issues during making of transactions
 Consumer privacy and DDOS attacks within e-
commerce website [3]

Aims and Objectives
 To discuss about the security aspects in relation to
e-commerce
 To discuss about the client-side, server-side and
database security during e-commerce transactions
 To discuss about threats, analyse them and
implement strategies for mitigating them

Focused Literature
The prime problems based on e-commerce security are:
 Inaccurate Management
 Manipulation of Prices [4]
 Snowshoe Spam and Malicious Code Threats
 DDOS attacks and repudiation

Proposed Method
The most proposed method for focusing over the topic
of e-commerce security is based on:
 Implementation of Client-side security
 Implementing Server-Side Security [5]
 Implementation of Database Server Security
 Implementing Communication with E-Commerce
Server

Proposed Timeline
The proposed timeline for implementing the security
within an e-commerce website would be based on:
 Performing of encryption based on an e-commerce
site
 A proper SQL connection would be implemented
based on a normal mode of communication
 The database server of the e-commerce website
should be highly encrypted with best coding
techniques

References
[1] L., Bonastre, and Granollers, A set of heuristics for user experience
evaluation in e-commerce websites. In 7th International Conference on
Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (pp. 27-34), 2014, March.
[2] A.A., Alyoubi, E-commerce in developing countries and how to develop them
during the introduction of modern systems. Procedia Computer Science, 65,
pp.479-483, 2015.
[3] E., Turban, J., Whiteside, D. King and J., Outland, Introduction to electronic
commerce and social commerce. Springer, 2017.
[4] G., Wang, F., Musau, S., Guo and M.B., Abdullahi, Neighbor similarity trust
against sybil attack in P2P e-commerce. IEEE transactions on parallel and
distributed systems, 26(3), pp.824-833, 2015.
[5] G., Dinu and L., Dinu, Using Internet as a commercial tool: A case study of e-
commerce in Resita. Procedia Engineering, 69, pp.469-476, 2014.

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