Security Issues in M-Commerce: A Usage-Based Taxonomy

  • Authors:
  • Suresh Chari;Parviz Kermani;Sean Smith;Leandros Tassiulas

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • E-Commerce Agents, Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

M-commerce is a new area arising from the marriage of electronic commerce with emerging mobile and pervasive computing technology. The newness of this area--and the rapidness with which it is emerging--makes it diffcult to analyze the technological problems that m-commerce introduces--and, in particular, the security and privacy issues. This situation is not good, since history has shown that security is very diffcult to retro-fit into deployed technology, and pervasive m-commerce promises (threatens?) to permeate and transform even more aspects of life than e-commerce and the Internet has. In this paper, we try to begin to rectify this situation: we offer a preliminary taxonomy that unifies many proposed m-commerce usage scenarios into a single framework, and then use this framework to analyze security issues.