E-Commerce Intrusion Prevention Solutions

Organizations increasingly rely on the Internet to conduct business to drive their corporate strategies and increase operational effectiveness at a time when the global reach of business transactions represent new opportunities. E-Commerce web sites and partner collaboration portals enhance business opportunities and help organizations maintain real-time connectivity to their customers and partners. However, the ubiquitous nature of the Internet also creates new opportunities for cyber crime activities, which target the core infrastructure element for successful online business initiatives, the E-commerce server.

As businesses rely more heavily on new Website infrastructure to fuel sales growth activities, the financial losses associated with cyber crime has scaled just as rapidly. However, the impact, scale and financial loss associated with many of these attacks are usually not made public. Extortion is an emerging, yet often unreported threat, where a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is threatened if requested payments aren’t doled out. The bottom-line is that a new class of more advanced purpose-built security technologies is necessary to provide the critical protection.

The moment you install an E-commerce server, you've opened a window into your local network that the entire Internet can peer through. While most visitors are content to window shop, others prefer to vandalize or even force the window open and crawl inside. The results can be embarrassing, for example, the discovery that your home page has been replaced by an obscene parody, or damaging, such as the theft of your entire customer database. Another rapidly growing example of malicious behavior is blocking customer access for fun or extortion purposes, each resulting in lost sales opportunities and creating disgruntled shoppers.

Any organization using E-commerce servers understands the importance of providing a rapid response time to customers, while downtime means that the potential for lost profits is huge as well as running the risk of lost customer goodwill and trust in maintaining confidentiality.

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