Chapter 14: Types of Security Technologies

Today, more than ever, organizations are challenged with improving security without incurring a corresponding increase in cost or burden to their existing staff. By comparing the benefits that a new product will provide to the total cost of that product, organizations will make better choices that ultimately lead to greater security. Leveraging existing products is quite often the quickest way to improving both security and the bottom line. Finally, in many cases, organizations can address most of their e-commerce application concerns or problems with the products they already own. With the preceding in mind, this part of the chapter very briefly highlights emerging threats specific to e-commerce application security and provides guidance on effective approaches to e-commerce application protection.