E-commerce has come of age as "e-business" with a brand new set of technical problems. Events, like the widely publicised eBay crashes, and the Christmas-time collapse of ValuAmerica, have made plain how brutal the consequences of downtime in an e-business really are.
Adding to the difficulty of securing a business is growing public concern with personal and financial privacy. This book examines the external threats to business systems, and where system and business goals may diverge. Ghosh covers the pressing issues and new paradigms of 2nd generation e-commerce, including embedded Internet devices, how to predict the unpredictable in software behaviour, mobile code and the growing power of malware (malicious software), and the uneasy balance between providing good service and consumer privacy. The nuts and bolts of enhancing security and safeguarding your gateways are also presented.
