Electronic Commerce Security

Abstract

Abstract Current estimates indicate that there will be 500 million users connected to the Internet by 2001. If only ten percent of those users are potentially malicious, there are approximately 50 million threats to information assets connected to the network that an organization plans to use to conduct business. If only one percent of those users represent truly significant threats to an organization, there are 5 million potential intruders that can reach the virtual front door. If only one-half of one percent (0.5 percent) are criminals (a conservative estimate in most demographic groups), there are 2.5 million potential thieves who can try to steal things of value from an organization simply by turning on their PC.