Web Security: E-Commerce

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             Web security is a main issue of electronic commerce. The main reasons being are: security of safe documents, data, and information relating to a business or person's financial statements. This can lead to loss of confidential documents and in turn loss of privacy and money. This creates a great deal of worry to people and buisnesses and therefore, it has caused awareness of safety and security around the world.
             "Electronic commerce covers any form of business or administrative transaction or information exchange that is executed using any information and communications technology (ICT)."
             E-commerce can be divided into three areas of activity: 1. Business to business 2. Business to consumer and 3. Government to nation (that includes both businesses and the citizen)
             1. Business to Business: is the main area of acitivity and it is believed that it will remain like this in the future as well. This area covers everything from communication between retailers and their suppliers. It also includes internet banking payments, as well as, internet based catalogue systems.
             2. Business to Consumer: this field covers a wide, growing range of Internet based sites from home banking, purchasing insurance, home shopping to share dealing.
             3. Government to Nation: this involves two main areas: (i) the government to business communications and (ii) the government to citizen activities
             The internet used as a means for business transactions in the world is still very minimal, but it's usage and popularity is slowly, but surely increasing. It is predicted that in the next few years, there will be an internet commerce explosion. One of the reasons for this explosion is that it is readily accessible ...

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