ABSTRACT


The internet has been a wide usage in all the fields in the present competitive world. It is being used in the education, research, business and what not, in everything. But providing security for the users information or transactions or any other data in any of the field has become a paramount. This paper gives a vivid picture of E-commerce and the vulnerabilities they are facing in providing a secure system for the users. In other words, how the security attacks are made either by the hackers or the intruders, the ways how they attack and exploit to illegitimate means.
This paper is an overview of the security and privacy concerns based on the experiences as developers of E-commerce. E-commerce is a business middleware that accelerates the development of any business transaction-oriented application, from the smallest retailer to the distributor, to the consumer (user). These transactions may apply b between manufacturers and distributors or suppliers. Here, the user needs to be assured with the privacy of his/her information. In this article, we focus on possible attack scenarios in an e-Commerce system and provide preventive strategies, including security features that one can implement.

Here we present you the better ways of how to defend from the attacks and protect your personal data without depending on the network providerâ„¢s security with the help of personnel firewalls and honey pots.