Information Technology Journal1812-56381812-5646Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/itj.2006.128.137KoohiIraj .1200651The mass adoption of the Internet has created a pattern shift in the way businesses
are conducted today. This has resulted in the birth of Electronic Commerce
or E-Commerce. Traditional physical trading of goods and currency is becoming
more and more unpopular and more businesses are jumping on the E-commerce bandwagon.
E-commerce is eye-catching because it reduces the cost of doing business. Sending
a few bytes of data over a network is cheaper, faster and more convenient than
sending a messenger or even making a phone call. The primary distress is issues
in E-business security. The Internet is very public and many people hesitate to
send sensitive data over the wires where it might be intercepted by nefarious
third parties. But with so many organizations excited about the benefits of E-commerce,
plenty of people are working on resolving the e-security issues. E-commerce is
the exchange of something of value between two entities. That something
may be goods, services, information, money, or anything else the two entities
consider to have value. Commerce is the central mechanism from which capitalism
is derived. The process of transforming something into a commercial activity is
called commercialization.]]>Alan, S. and S. Shaffer,2001pp: 12-17pp: 12-17Alan, S. and S. Shaffer,2001pp: 67-70pp: 67-70Schafer, J.B., J.A. Konstan and J. Riedl,2001Vol. 5,pp: 80-112pp: 80-112Schafer, J.B., J.A. Konstan and J. Riedl,2001Vol. 5,pp: 115-123pp: 115-123Charles, T.,2000pp: 97-101pp: 97-101Charles, T.,2000pp: 112-120pp: 112-120