Addressing the threat of security breach in the E-business process

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Department/School

Information Security and Applied Computing

Publication Title

International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Science

Abstract

This article explores the issues of protecting consumers’ public and private information in e-business. With advancement of innovative digital technology, the exponential growth of e-business has become almost ubiquitous throughout the world. However, cybersecurity has been one of the major concerns since the increasing consumption of online business. The weaknesses that create threat to cybersecurity in online transactions negatively impact both the consumers and the merchants in online business. The purpose of this paper is to explain the possible cybersecurity risks associated with e-business, why the cybersecurity risks matter, and how they can be mitigated. This paper outlined some of the strategies to ensure cybersecurity in online business protecting consumers’ privacy and data security. The paper provided ways to protect e-business consumers from these flaws in ensuring cybersecurity are worth worrying about. This study may help e-business organizations to mitigate damages when all else fails in cybercrime. Thus, the result of this study may also help cyber security and cybercrime professionals in implementing consumers’ privacy and cybersecurity procedures and practices.

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B. Ferdousi is a faculty member in EMU's School of Information Security and Applied Computing.

J. Bari is a faculty member in EMU's School of Engineering.

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