Electronic Commerce 12e: Chapter 10
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E-commerce Security

• After reading Chapter 10, read these articles:

  What Cybersecurity Threats Should Most Worry You?

  5 Data Breach Threats Your Small Business Should Prepare For

  The most popular way to pay for goods or services online is with credit cards. That means as an E-commerce business owner you will need to collect personal information from your customers, especially credit card information. As you can tell from the articles above, this information is a major target of unscrupulous thieves. Your customers are putting their trust in you to protect that information. If you lose that trust you will lose their business.

  The textbook describes a number of security threats you could face. Among them are: Secrecy Threats, Web Server Threats, and Database Threats. In addition to a number of measures mentioned in your textbook, there is an organization established by some of the major credit card providers that is gaining popularity, the PCI Security Standards Council. They agreed upon 12 PCI Security Standards.

  Read how Shopify complies with these standards

• After reading your textbook and the web pages above, do the following:
• Copy and paste the questions below into the PCI Standards section your E-commerce plan. Then write your answers.
• Describe your reaction to one or both of the security threat articles. Include one or more direct quotes from the article(s) in your response (Three sentences).
• Briefly describe Secrecy, Web Server and Database Threats (One or two sentences each).
• Name three measures mentioned in your textbook you would take to prevent these threats. Why?
• Would you adopt the 12 PCI Security Standards? Why or why not?
• How would you adopt the PCI DSS (be specific)?
  • Check your spelling and grammar
  • Upload your E-Commerce Plan to the Security assignment on Canvas


E-commerce site discussion:
• Cut and paste your answers to the E-commerce Security questions into a post on the Discussion Board
• Refer to the final project requirements for the Home page
• Start on the Home page for your E-Commerce site
  • This does not need to be the completed version, just a start
• In this week’s discussion paste the link to your Home page or attach a screen shot
• Tell us about your plans for the Home page and what you would like feedback
• Post your discussion on Canvas
• By the end of next week provide feedback for at least two other students’ Home pages