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Secure e-commerce transactions

For digital businesses offering online sales there are also additional security risks from the 

customer or merchant perspective:

(a)

 

Transaction or credit card details stolen in transit.

(b)

 

Customer’s credit card details stolen from merchant’s server.

(c)

 

Merchant or customer is not who they claim to be.

In this section we assess the measures that can be taken to reduce the risk of these breaches 

of e-commerce security. We start by reviewing some of the theory of online security and then 

review the techniques used.