Security: important issue in e-commerce

  • Authors:
  • Zahra Ahmadi-Brooghani

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Engineering Department, The University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

  • Venue:
  • ICCOM'07 Proceedings of the 11th Conference on 11th WSEAS International Conference on Communications - Volume 11
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In the rapidly expanding field of E-Commerce, mobile agent is the emerging technology that addresses the requirement of intelligent filtering/processing of information. E-Commerce or electronic commerce is born along with the Internet. In this application, security is crucial since we can consider that any application will not be useful without doing secure transactions. This paper is consisted of two sections: the first section some definitions like e-commerce, mobile agents which are special types of agents have been presented and the second section begins with the main security issues related to the mobile agent paradigm, and techniques for keeping the mobile agent platform and the agent itself secure against each other.