Curbing cyber-crime and Enhancing e-commerce security with Digital Forensics
The explosion in the e-commerce industry which has been necessitated by the growth and advance expansion of Information technology and its related facilities in recent years have been met with adverse security issues thus affecting the industry and the entire online activities. This paper exams the prevailing security threats e-commerce is facing which is predominantly known as cyber-crime and how computer related technology and facilities such as digital forensics can be adopted extensively to ensure security in online related business activities. This paper investigated the risk, damage and the cost cyber-crime poses to individuals and organizations when they become victims, since transacting business online as well as all related online activities has become inherent in our everyday life. It also comprehensively elucidate on some of the cyber-crime activities that are posing serious threat to the security of E-commerce. Amazon and EBay were used as the case of study in relation to respondents who patronizes these renowned e-commerce sites for various transactions.
Keywords: E-commerce Security, Cyber-Crime, Digital Forensics, Network forensics, Network Security, Online Transactions, Identity theft, hacking.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Israel D. Fianyi
A full time PhD candidate at Charles Sturt University Australia in the school of Computing and mathematics, Obtained Bachelor of Art in Information studies 2007 from University of Ghana, MBA in Management Information Systems 2010, University of Ghana and MBA E-commerce in 2014 from University of Gloucestershire UK. All working experience have been in the academia, specifically in IT related fields. Currently researching into Biometric security, digital forensics and Big data analytics.
Israel D. Fianyi
A full time PhD candidate at Charles Sturt University Australia in the school of Computing and mathematics, Obtained Bachelor of Art in Information studies 2007 from University of Ghana, MBA in Management Information Systems 2010, University of Ghana and MBA E-commerce in 2014 from University of Gloucestershire UK. All working experience have been in the academia, specifically in IT related fields. Currently researching into Biometric security, digital forensics and Big data analytics.
