e-Commerce Applications Using Oracle8i and Java from Scratch

Introduction

The explosion of the Internet has opened new opportunities for companies. An increasing number of companies need access to the Internet for a variety of purposes such as the World Wide Web (WWW), Internet mail, telnet, ftp, and so on. A secure environment is very important for continued customer confidence. Lack of security can destroy any organization over night. Security issues become a bigger challenge in e-commerce applications due to the access-anywhere characteristics of such applications. We need to regulate the network traffic that occurs between the company and the Internet and vice versa. In this chapter, we will address the important issue of end-to-end security. End-to-end security is essential in e-commerce applications ...