E-Commerce Security

Abstract

The new economy and information age, which started to change most values in human lives, made it easier to reach and share information. Through World Wide Web, the internet, having appeared and desired to be used as a means for trade, the term “electronic commerce” has been coined. The electronic commerce, resulting from development in information and communication technologies, has some problems, both in national and international context. It has brought its own legal, managerial and technical problems stemming from widespread use. There are numerous problems caused by electronic commerce, both nationwide and worldwide. Especially the mutual trust problem between parties is an important problem. That is, during data exchange in trade there is the risk of third parties to access and misuse that data. The aim of this paper is to find out problems in secure electronic trade and review the literature on the basis of precautions and reveal the practical side of those precautions.