There is a high risk when it comes to ecommerce, and affects both, costumers and companies. Increasingly fraud for both the costumer and the business make the internet a hard place to trust when it comes to do a business transaction. For this reason you need to be really carefully were you perform those transactions and if it’s even worth, to invest time and money on ecommerce.
More and more, people are trying to make ecommerce secure, but there is other points to consider before a company embarks on ecommerce.
I. You cannot do everything online, not all the products on the market are made for the web. Example: Buying a couch from Furniture.com. Have limitations when it comes to delivery, if you are outside their delivery area, you will be refer to a partner site[1].
II. Easy target for lawsuits around the world. Example: EBay had to pay 63 million dollars to Louis Vuitton on French Court, for letting user’s sale fake perfume[2].
III. Even though there are millions of products on the web, only few are meant for ecommerce. The perfect product needs to be lightweight, easy to ship, and frequent reordering, most of the time even having free shipping. Example: 1800 contacts[3].
IV. According to Hacker Safe CEO, Ken Leonard, 75% of ecommerce sites are not secure or do not consider security when launching their ecommerce sites[4].
Any type of online process or system that is capable of taking payment via credit card is open to abuse by the more unscrupulous and devious elements that haunt the Internet. It is also important to remember that there are not only credit card transactions that are under threat. Hacking into systems, which hold personal information such as: bank account numbers, names, addresses, etc. Another area that has a vast income potential for those, who would use the information illegally[5].
More and more, people are trying to make ecommerce secure, but there is other points to consider before a company embarks on ecommerce.
I. You cannot do everything online, not all the products on the market are made for the web. Example: Buying a couch from Furniture.com. Have limitations when it comes to delivery, if you are outside their delivery area, you will be refer to a partner site[1].
II. Easy target for lawsuits around the world. Example: EBay had to pay 63 million dollars to Louis Vuitton on French Court, for letting user’s sale fake perfume[2].
III. Even though there are millions of products on the web, only few are meant for ecommerce. The perfect product needs to be lightweight, easy to ship, and frequent reordering, most of the time even having free shipping. Example: 1800 contacts[3].
IV. According to Hacker Safe CEO, Ken Leonard, 75% of ecommerce sites are not secure or do not consider security when launching their ecommerce sites[4].
Any type of online process or system that is capable of taking payment via credit card is open to abuse by the more unscrupulous and devious elements that haunt the Internet. It is also important to remember that there are not only credit card transactions that are under threat. Hacking into systems, which hold personal information such as: bank account numbers, names, addresses, etc. Another area that has a vast income potential for those, who would use the information illegally[5].
[5] Ecommerce- safe and secure, John Sherida. http://ezinearticles.com/?Ecommerce---Safe-and-Secure?&id=210451.
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