Abstract
Nearly 80 percent of global CEOs surveyed believe Internet-enabled electronic business will reshape competition in their industries, according to a recent Price Waterhouse/World Economic Forum Survey. Today, electronic commerce is largely performed on an inherently insecure medium --- the Internet. The challenge will be to ensure that the enterprise is secured so that organizations can gain a competitive edge in a constantly changing electronic marketplace, and to do so efficiently without compromising business opportunities and information assets. In this talk, Dr. Anup K. Ghosh, author of the definitive book on e-commerce security, E-Commerce Security: Weak Links, Best Defenses (Wiley, 1998), identifies the vulnerabilities and threats that are in the diverse applications, networks, and systems in organizations. Contrary to what is accepted as conventional wisdom, Dr. Ghosh dispels the notion that cryptography is the solution to e-commerce security. Rather, he discusses the four critical components of e-commerce systems that must be secured in order to engage in secure electronic commerce.
Bio:
Dr. Anup K. Ghosh is the Director for Security Research at Reliable Software Technologies. He leads research in e-commerce security, intrusion detection, software certification, robustness testing, and malicious software detection. His research is currently funded by external grants at a level of over $5 million. Dr. Ghosh is author of E-Commerce Security: Weak Links, Best Defenses (Wiley, 1998), the definitive book on e-commerce security, now in its second printing. The book leverages Dr. Ghosh's research in computer security, as well as practical experience gained through security consulting with Fortune 50 companies to assess the security of e-commerce systems and smart card protocols. See https://www.rstcorp.com/books/ecs/ for more information on the book.
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