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Overview
Covering a wide range of existing e-commerce security issues, this book proposes solutions to security risks facing managers today. Experts in the field of e-commerce and e-commerce security offer insights into key issues such as the tactics of hackers, spamming, viruses, and future challenges facing e-commerce professionals. Strategies businesses can use to protect themselves from damages inflicted by hackers that attempt to locate vulnerabilities in an e-commerce system are described. How security architecture assists businesses in averting some forms of security troubles as well as how top management and e-commerce security professionals must continue to work toward protecting their e-commerce systems and clients from attack are explored in detail.Author Biography: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour is the executive director of the Information Resources Management Association. He is also the editor of the Information Resources Management Journal, Annals of Cases on Information Technology, and Information Management. He serves on the editorial review boards of six other international information systems journals. He is the author or editor of 15 books and more than 30 articles published in journals such as Journal of Information Systems Management, Business Review, and Journal of Systems Management. He is a frequent speaker at many international meetings and organizations, such as the Association of Federal Information Resource Management, the Contract Management Association, the Financial Women Association, the National Association of States Information Resources Executives, and IBM. He lives in EDITOR: Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi
Synopsis
Essays by and interviews with academics and consultants address issues of security in e-commerce—a realm where the cost of misuse and criminal activities is now estimated to exceed $10 billion a year. The experts in question discuss security risks and the management of e-commerce practices and solutions which can be adopted by organizations of all types and sizes that rely on e-commerce for their day-to-day business. The CyberTech imprint is a subsidiary of Idea Group Publishing. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR