Security and Privacy for E–Business - Softcover

Ghosh, Anup K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471384216 ISBN 13: 9780471384212

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

This work offers an in-depth look at the issues involved in protecting an e-business from external threats whilst safeguarding customer privacy. With considerable amounts of money at stake in e-commerce, companies are growing concerned about security and privacy issues. Hackers have made headlines by breaking into Web sites that aggregate sensitive information about all of us, which has caused growing public concern about personal and financial privacy. Some online businesses are inadvertently "sharing" data with others when they incorporate systems. This book examines the external threats to a company's system and explains how to react if system and business goals diverge. It also presents a nuts-and-bolts guide to enhancing security and safeguarding gateways. It includes an extensive reference section for the many tools, standards, and watchdog agencies that aid in the security/privacy effort.

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From the Back Cover

Defend your business from hack attacks with well-engineered e-business systems "When it comes to e-commerce security, it's all about the software," asserts e-commerce security expert Anup Ghosh. Using powerful examples and case studies, he provides a remarkably lucid and compelling discussion of how software flaws make your e-business vulnerable to attacks and what you can do to guard against them. Rather than focusing on firewalls and encryption tools, Ghosh presents a proactive engineering approach that tackles the problem at its source--software--and helps ensure the security and reliability of your e-commerce systems. You'll get complete guidance on how to build secure systems from the ground up, learn to balance technical and business requirements while providing privacy for your customers, and discover the inside track on a variety of cutting-edge topics, including: *Software risk management and secure e-business systems engineering and testing *Denial-of-service attacks, buffer overrun attacks, worms, Web server exploits, and cyber threats to all components of e-business systems *Software risks in wireless PDAs, WAP-enabled phones, and e-commerce applications *Mobile code and the growing threat of malware (malicious code) *Why online privacy----including P3P----is good business

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471384216
• ISBN 13: 9780471384212
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256