Rethinking E-commerce Security

The emergence of e-commerce has changed the way business is done world-wide. Opportunities have arisen for initiating new international and domestic business ventures. As individuals and businesses increase information sharing, vulnerability to attack or intrusion rises. Therefore, security is a necessity in an e-commerce transaction. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and present the new approach to e-commerce security. Our philosophy is to look for significantly new paradigms and shifts from previous thinking, and facilitates the debate within a constructive environment of new approaches to existing and on going global problems of tackling security issues in e-commerce