Ensuring Security of Ecommerce Online Payment Systems

Abstract

Nowadays E-commerce is important because most businesses are done online. Examples of e-commerce are Alibaba express, Amazon…etc. As businesses are done on e-commerce, many transactions are done so it is important to provide security. There are three main security issues relevant to doing business online: verifying the identity of the person through which doing business, ensuring that messages sends and received have not been tampered performed. Cryptography is about constructing and analyzing protocols that overcome the influence of adversaries and which are related to various aspects in information security such as data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation, Application of cryptography include ATM cards, computer passwords, and electronic commerce. The aim is to study the security of different online payment systems, the threats to which users are exposed and some solutions to strengthen the security.

Keywords: e-commerce security-integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, privacy, availability

DOI: 10.7176/CEIS/13-2-02

Publication date:March 31^st 2022