ECommerce & Security: Is Your eCommerce Portal Secure

In terms that are more common, we can refer eCommerce as the platform for buying and selling of products and services through business and services over internet. In a simplest form people use this term as online shopping. Both the terms means one and the same thing. Here people search the product through a catalogue provided online, checking it out and select it over the web. Where it deals with an encrypted payment process with the use of credit cards. The increasing demand for online sale gives the following advantages to the users:

• It decreases the prices offered by vendors as they are operating with less profit margin.
• It gives people a better convenience of getting a product delivered to their home without the effort of transport and parking associated with it.
• Sourcing the product more cheaply over the web, from overseas vendors.
• A great deal of variety and stock inventory is offered by online stores.
• Comparison engines and method of review is there to guide you in selecting a good product without being cheated over the internet.
• User can also take advantages of the auction sites, to crack some deals there.
• Now people switching from their traditional method of shopping to the online shopping by knowing the significance of internet shopping as it saves both time and money. It however offers attractive discounts and better deal.

Security:

Many people avoid using the internet as they do not find it secured. A few loopholes are there such a hacker, data manipulation and all, which quite fears factors for the general internet user. However the security factor is very important as working over the web. Over internet, the security is being managed by passing the keys between the server and client computer. While entering any secure site the browser indicates and passes a public key to the server, which receives it by recognizing the encrypted code. The server key is known as the private key. There are two methods followed to manage the internet security depending on your budget. Firstly you can use someone else key or else you can register yourself by paying for your own new key which in other words known as SSL certificate. Here the business houses associated with it offers access to the user to use their server and secure certificate for less than what they have paid for their own key.

Moreover, an SSL certificate is used as an acronym for secured socket. It is a pattern method used to regulate web communications. It protects your sensitive data and information against security attacks and threats. Fundamental SSL techniques are designed in the way to encrypt and decrypt messages sent from the client browser in encrypted form to the server, when the server received the message it decrypts it and helps in identifying the correct sender. It also prevents the process of encryption and decryption free from the attack of malicious virus or malware.

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