6.19.2008

The threat of online sercurity: how safe is our data?

In this century, e-commerce are very popular in the consumer behavior. From the Internet, we can learnt how to do the e-transaction and purchase from the net. However, the online security for the e-commerce we need to care about it.
The threat we will face in the Internet are, nontechnical attack, that is an attack that uses chicanery to trick people into revealing sensitive information or performing actions that compromise the security of a network. In additional, the social engineering also a type of nontechnical attack that uses social pressures to trick computer users into compromising computer networks to which those individuals have access.
The solution for us how to protects our data for the online security, we need to uses the security issues to help us to protect our data, such as Authentication, Authorization, Nonrepudiation, Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
From the authentication, we can see the process to verify the real identity of an individual, computer, computer program, or EC website. Therefore, the authorization are process of determining what the authenticated entity is allowed to access and what operations it is allowed to perform and for the nonrepudiation are assurance that online customers or trading partners cannot falsely deny their purchase or transaction. In additional, the major issues of confidentiality also to assurance of the data privacy and accuracy. Keeping Private or sensitive information from being disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, or processes. Integrity also are assurance that stored data has not been modified without authorization and a message that was sent is the same message that was received and Availability also assurance that access to data, the Web site, or other EC data service is timely, available, reliable, and restricted to authorized users.
Finally, by using the security issues, that can help us to efficiency to protect our data during the online period and can help us to minimize the risk.

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