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eBusiness: Security
Issues in relation to security on the web include:
- Safety: Whether sensitive information (credit card details, for example) is protected while it is being sent from the user’s computer to the web server and onwards (if applicable)
- Trust: Whether commitments made on the web will be honoured (for example, will goods bought and paid for on-line be dispatched?)
- Privacy: Whether there are restrictions on the access to, and use of, personal information (for example, age or financial status) provided by a user as part of a web transaction.
Secure payments solutions for credit cards involve:
- A bank that provides an Internet merchant account (even if you already have a merchant account with a bank, you need an Internet merchant account)
- Software that encrypts credit card details while they are being sent form the user’s computer to the bank
- A secure certificate for data encryption.
There are a number of schemes – ChamberSeal and eTrust, for example – that vet applicants before allowing them to use a logo on their web-sites signifying that they are trust-worthy.
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