E-commerce communication has become easy and fast because of the advance of the Internet. But, the unstructured nature of the Internet poses serious threat to the E-commerce security system. Here are few common E-commerce security problems.

The threat that poses E-commerce security system are: illegally attaining access to important information, removing the sensitive data, denial of service (DOS) to block the authorized users from visiting the site, changing sensitive data and contents from the site, and re-directing the users to some other website. Hence, enough E-commerce security control standards should be introduced to reduce the risk in the E-commerce system.

The hacked website of an individual has a serious impact on the business that runs on the E-commerce system. The possible impact on the E-commerce security could be: high financial loss due to fraud or litigation activities, other financial loss due to unwelcome publicity, possible criminal charges due to any breach in the data protection or regulation in the E-commerce systems, and loss of customer market due to DOS attack.

Here are some techniques to protect the E-commerce security system from the hackers.

Authentication: This system is used to identify the users seeking to access the website. The procedure involves: assigning a username and password to visitors who are registering, introducing a two factor verification system only to registered users, scanning the authentic user’s unique physical attribute.

Access Control: In this method, access for all users is confined according to their usage. This system restricts the users from attaining sensitive data and protects the E-commerce system.

Encryption: This technique uses technologies such as secure socket layer (SSL) and virtual private network (VPN) to secure sensitive data that are transmitted or shown on the individual’s website.

Firewall: Firewall can be software or hardware that is used to protect the server, computer system, or network from attack by hackers and viruses. At the network level, the firewall provides control measures to all the computers that are linked together on the network. If used on the personal computers, it protects only the system where it is set up.

Intrusion Detection System (IDS): This system is used to identify all inbound and outbound network activities. This method is also used to identify all the illegal access made on the system or network. To make security system more effective, continual watch on the system should be maintained.