E-commerce: From shopping carts to credit cards

In the modern world, the concept of E-commerce has given the act of doing business a new direction and has evolved significantly than just being known as electronic payment on the Internet. E-commerce is growing at an exponential rate. There are several application areas in this category; like online banking activities, document automation in supply chain and logistics, teleconferencing, online office suites, shopping cart software, online shopping and order tracking. For example one is able to buy an airline ticket, movie ticket, household commodity, download music or a book just by giving a credit card number and click download button in a webpage. The user has a availability of worldwide markets and machines all the time, that are tireless unlike humans. Some of the major issues while enabling these services include privacy issues, data security and application technology. If security issues crop up among the users in such a situation, then it means that the services will be rendered redundant.