Securing Online Payment Gateway using Virtual Private Network (VPN)-Application Layer
Fathimath Kousar, Geethalakshmi, Suzaifa, Mustafa Basthikodi, Ahmed Rimaz Faizabadi · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2019
In today’s digital era, technology plays a crucial role in the development of business, commerce, and finance. The digital economy has received widespread practice and academia which has potentially replaced hard currency transactions. The digital currency is evolved and developed to form the cryptocurrencies and blockchain virtual currencies. The security of these transactions has made it exponentially essential due to the high impact of cybercrimes on digital transactions. In this project, we implement a Virtual Private Network that can be embedded within the online transaction applications to provide secure online payment gateway in the cyberspace. Virtual private networks (VPNs) are a popular approach for protecting and securing the communication in public networks. The VPNs provide confidentiality, integrity, availability and important level of security over insecure networks. The approach until today has been to deliver VPN’s up to system level. This paper presents the deployment of VPN for application level. The online payment apps won’t use the device-level or system VPN to connect with the payment gateway. The payment app, which may be wrapped securely, will be made more secure by having its own VPN tunnel with the gateway, wherein the VPN tunnel used by this payment app is not used by other apps running on the same system