E-business Security
E-business is and will continue to be a powerful tool for business transactions. It allows companies to enhance their supply-chain operation, reach new target markets, and improve customer, supplier and employee services. E-commerce is now an important part of modern business transactions, and presents an exciting alternative to the traditional brick and mortar business models. Advances in information communication technology have resulted in businesses opening up markets and trading communities on the web.
Understanding and implementing a flexible, scalable, and secure e-business infrastructure is the main challenge facing virtually all enterprises and service providers today. To enjoy the benefits of e-business applications fully, a coherent, consistent approach to e-business security is a pre requisite.
Until recently network security specialists have focused solely on keeping hackers out using tools such as firewalls. This is no longer adequate. E-business security means letting business partners and customers into the network, essentially through the firewall, but in a selective and controlled way, so that they access only the applications they need.
To date, organizations have controlled and managed access to resources by building authorization and authentication into each individual e-business application. This piecemeal approach is time-consuming, error-prone, and expensive to build and maintain. Emerging technology provides a new role-based access control infrastructure which is centralized, for all of the enterprise's e-business applications, allowing users access to only the information that they require.
This new access control infrastructure also allows organizations to implement consistent privacy policies and ensures that unauthorized people are denied access to sensitive business information sources. In addition, a centralized security solution lends greater flexibility to supporting new technologies such as mobile Internet devices, which have proliferated over the last few years.
Besides controlling access, organizations also need to monitor security events across the enterprise so that suspicious activities can be quickly pinpointed. This is becoming critical as enterprise networks grow rapidly in complexity and strategic importance. New monitoring technology lets organizations consolidate data from all their disparate security sensors--firewalls, anti-virus software, host systems, and routers--and provides a coordinated single image of potential intrusions for effective incident response.
Today's open e-businesses require a proactive, enabling security strategy, one that encourages new levels of interaction between business partners, while safeguarding online business processes, rights, and content with standards-based, industrial-strength security. Deploying such an e-security solution is the key to an effective, comprehensive corporate e-business strategy
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