Information Security & E-commerce

which of the following describes ecommerce

• doing business electronically

• doing business

• sale of goods

• all the above

Most individuals are familiar with which form of e‐commerce?

• B2B

• B2C

• C2C

• C2B

Which segment do e-bay and amazon.com belong?

• B2B

• B2C

• C2C

• C2B

Digital products are best suited for B2C ecommerce because they____

• are commodity like products

• can be mass-customized and personalized

• can be delivered at the time of purchase

• all the above

EDI use

• a. requires an extranet

• a. requires value added network

• a. can be done on internet

• a. requires a corporate intranet

EDI standard

• is not easily available

• defines several hundred transaction sets for various business forms

• is not popular

• defines only a transmission protocol

By security in e-Commerce we mean

i. Protecting an organization’s data resource from unauthorized access

ii. Preventing disasters from happening

iii. Authenticating messages received by an organization

iv. Protecting messages sent on the internet from being read and understood by unauthorized persons/organizations

• i,ii

• ii, iii

• iii,iv

• i, iii, iv

A firewall is a

• wall built to prevent fires from damaging a corporate intranet

• security device deployed at the boundary of a company to prevent unauthorized physical access

• security device deployed at the boundary of a corporate intranet to protect it from unauthorized access

• device to prevent all accesses from the internet to the corporate intranet

By encryption of a text we mean

• compressing it

• expanding it

• scrambling it to preserve its security

• hashing it

How the transactions occur in e‐commerce?

• Using e‐medias

• Using computers only

• Using mobile phones only

• None of the above