Security
The main concern of E-Commerce ever since its introduction intill now its still security. Every transaction in E-Commerce contains sensitive information, it may be information on the company’s secret (example the companies supplier list) or personal information on its customer (example credit card number). In order to protect these data there are few technology that are able to help so that these information are not able to be leak out to the public or hacker.
The easiest way to prevent any unauthorized personal retrieving data from the server would be firewall. It blocks out any request from the IP addresses which is not configured for them to allow. Other then accepting request from IP filtering another method would be packet- filtering. This works by filtering certain request so that the request in retrieving the data is limited.
To further secure the data application –proxy level, this application –proxy level acts as a second level of defense where it limits the request which are from the internet into the companies private network this can be done by a server called the bastion gateway. It limits the type of request which can be made from the internet to the private network. This helps to prevent any leak of sensitive data to other people.
Other then firewalls when companies are engaging B2B they are also able to use VPN (Virtual Private Network). It serves as a private network by using the internet from one point to another. Data traveling thru here are encrypted using ssl which eliminates the fear of a third party eavesdropping.
