Abstract
As organizations rush to build and support eCommerce applications
there is an increasing realization that information and financial assets are
becoming more vulnerable to attack. Media hyped reports of the
BubbleBoy virus and frequent network failure of eCommerce sites like
eTrade may serve to alarm the public, but the threats are real and the
potential risks catastrophic. One industry survey discovered that
organizations engaged in Web commerce, electronic supply chains, and
enterprise resource planning experience three times the incidents of
information loss and theft of trade secrets than everybody else.
