E-SECURITY ISSUE

E-Commerce refers to the exchange of goods and services over the Internet. All major retail brands have
an online presence, and many brands have no associated bricks and mortar presence. Electronic Business
(e-Business) is revolutionizing the way of communication between internal and external stakeholders in
an organization. E-business can lead to competitive advantage and at the same time, increase profitability.
There are several factors resulting on the success of e-business. One of the most important factors is trust.
The electronic business provides enormous advantages. In this paper we discuss a secure system
accomplishes its task with no unintended side effects, by classifying the user security concerns into Class
A, Class B and Class C impersonation types. We suggest that these vulnerabilities can be linked to a
weakness in the user security model. Hence, without forsaking the active model we propose a goaloriented
approach to address the user security needs of the system. Furthermore, a review of the existing
solutions depicts insufficient capabilities to minimise all the three classes of impersonation challenges.
Hence, we propose that an appropriate blend of existing methods will minimise the types of
impersonation threats and improve user security in e-business and also address security concerns in web
services