SECURITY IN TODAY'S E-WORLD
Manjari Mehta, Beena George · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2001
This paper applies an existing security model from IS research to the current e-commerce environment (a) to assess whether the model represents the risk components and (b) to identify the threats in today's e-commerce arena.Using data from a web-survey, this paper compares the changes in threats in the networked environment before 1992, with the current environment.Our findings indicate that (a) no major changes are required to improve the existing model and (b) viruses and system penetration by hackers are perceived to be the two most severe threats to an organization.Information Technologies 1 Threat: Any potential event or act that could cause one or more of the following to occur; unauthorized disclosure, destruction, removal, modification or interruption of sensitive or critical information, assets or services.A threat can be natural, deliberate or accidental.(Threats and Risk Assessment Working Guide, Government of Canada).