Impact Of E-Commerce And Mcommerce

This paper is about E-Business / E-Commerce E-Trust, E-Security, & E-Privacy. The main topics that will be discussed are mainly from the consumers standpoint, but also a little from the E-Business and E-Commerce standpoint as well. The scope of this paper does not include details on how to establish security nor address privacy concerns.

One important part of E-Commerce is maintaining stringent site security, confidentiality for the customers, integrity, and availability, also a secure system must contain authentication verification of the user, Authorization, allowing manipulation of the resources in a specific way and Encryption for records and transactions.

E-commerce applications require critical networks to accommodate video, voice, and data traffic as the numbers of users increase the need for greater performance and support is necessary. As a network in a company enables more applications and are available to more users, the applications become more vulnerable to security threats. To ensure e-commerce transactions are not compromised security technology play a major role, and there are four categories that must be addressed:

The use of the internet for e-commerce transactions is transforming the way people around the globe purchase goods and services. While brick and mortar businesses struggle to keep their doors open, businesses are responding by moving their goods and services online to reach the widest base of consumers possible. In order to protect businesses and consumers, legal protections must be created and enforced. Providing of overview of three of these protections along with proposing solutions to enhance the protection of e-commerce transactions will show the necessity of these legal protections.

Security in the age of internet has become a tremendously important issue to provide comfort not only for paranoid people but for many others who are naïve to believe that protection in digital era is essential to communication between millions of people that increasingly used as a tool for commerce.

“E-commerce security has its own particular nuances and is one of the highest visible security components that affect the end user through their

E-commerce is a product that has been available since the early 90’s. It is something that people are familiar with. A product that is now part and parcel of people’s lives.

Many organizations industriously look for the opportunity to gain the competitive advantages in their industries. One of the opportunities that frequently used by the organization is the implementation of e-commerce. Thus, the e-commerce and the online sale transaction become popular in each industry. E-commerce provides many benefits, such as the saving of shopping time, the cost savings, convenience, and free from geographical constraints.

This project will look at e-Commerce, concentrating on security measures of an online auction site, eBay. Security on the Internet is a concern for any online business in today's society. We will discuss online services, how businesses on the Internet conduct their transactions and shipping. With eBay we will be looking at their operation procedures while concentrating on Firewalls, Transparent Cryptographic File and Public Key Infrastructure as possible solutions for security measures.

“The web is the ultimate customer empowering environment. He or She who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouse click away.” Jacob Nielsen, Designing Web Usability. There are many Pros and Cons when it comes to e- commerce. The use of the internet e commerce has grown drastically in recent years. E commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services on the internet. Even though there are tangible privacy and security issues that keep people on guard, consumers face a dilemma each time they need to divulge highly personal information online, the ability to provide secure shopping transaction via the internet and

Trust is an essential tool for a transaction to take place, both in an online and offline environment. In e-commerce, the Internet vendors as well as their websites can be trust building sources in themselves. So, it is important for companies to learn how to manage consumers’ trust in e-commerce. Although, building consumer trust on the Internet is a challenge for online vendors. For this

The article is very thorough in its descriptions and definitions of the web, the internet and e-commerce.I fully support the stance the author takes on thesedefinitions and capabilities of the internet and e-commerce. As noted in the paper,In order to understand the concept of e-commerce, it is important to have a true understanding of the concept of internet. Internet is defined by Rayport and Jaworski (2002,p.40) as "a collection of wires, protocols, and hardware that allows the electronic transmission of data over TCP/IP". This definition could be sufficient for the electronic part. Then the commerce parst just concerns the exchange of goods and services for money over the internet.E-commerce can therefore be defined as the art and science of exchanging goods and services over the internet backbone (Laudon & Traver, 2012,p.54).Issues of online security and privacy however must be taken care of as suggested in the final part of this paper. I find this paper very compelling and accurate in its definition of the internet, web and e-commerce as well as the issues and risks surrounding the use of e-commerce technology.

E-commerce is short for electronic commerce where the participants (companies) trade their products and services using computer networks. The buyers and sellers can use platforms like mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, online transaction processing, data collection, internet marketing, electronic data interchange and inventory management systems. Currently, most of these transactions have taken advantage of the World Wide Web, which is largely accessed through emails and other platforms. E-commerce entails online shopping web sites, active participation in online market places, business to business trading activities, data collection through web contacts and other social media, electronic data interchange between businesses and retails for launching newly innovated and created products and services.

In the past couple of the decades, internet technology has grown enormously. Users have access to millions of resources in front of them instantly. According to Zakaria “the internet users in December of 2000 were “360,985,492”, and in December 2011 the number of users became “2,267,233,742”, with a growth of 528.1%.” The in The world of businesses is changing because of E-commerce has been essential tool for businesses. About 53 percent of all purchases are by E-commerce Businesses have come up with plans to use E-commerce to deliver their products and services to the market. However, there are some risk of using E-commerce, the risk are financial, performance, or social risks. Not taking the right steps and having poor security can cause identity theft.

Electronic commerce, or e-commerce has developed exponentially in the last few years and has left some in the cold. The majority of people think e-commerce is just about buying and selling things over the Internet like through auctioning sites such as E-Bay and U-Bid. However, E-commerce is a broad term describing the electronic exchange of business data between two or more organizations' computers. Some examples might be the electronic job applications, on-line services like America online, and on-line billing that automatically pays specified bills each month so you don’t have to mail a check. E-commerce also includes buying and selling any item over the Internet, electronic banking so you can transfer funds between