An ecommerce website must protect its assets from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction. It requires a reliable infrastructure and framework to enable a secure and successful ecommerce business

Six Dimensions of Ecommerce Security 

■ Integrity: ability to ensure that information being displayed on a Web site or transmitted/received over the Internet has not been altered in any way by an unauthorized party

■ Nonrepudiation: ability to ensure that e-commerce participants do not deny (repudiate) online actions

■ Authenticity: ability to identify the identity of a person or entity with whom you are dealing on the Internet

■ Confidentiality: ability to ensure that messages and data are available only to those authorized to view them

■ Privacy: ability to control use of information a customer provides about himself or herself to merchant

■ Availability: ability to ensure that an e-commerce site continues to function as intended