E-Commerce Systems Security for Small Businesses

Small business e-commerce websites make an excellent target for maliciousattacks. Smallbusinesses donot have the resources needed to effectively deal with attacks.Large and somemid-size organization have teams that are dedicated to dealing with security incidents andpreventing future attacks. Most small businessesdonot have the capabilities of dealing withincidents the way large organizations do. Security of e-commerce websites is essential forcompliance with laws and regulations as well as gaining and maintaining the trust of consumers,partners and stakeholders.Many security standards have been established by variousorganizations to help guide security of small business servers, however, many of those standardsor guidelines are too costly or time consuming.This paper1will discuss how attacks are carried-outand how a small business can effectively secure their networkswithminimumcost