Since last few years there has been a sharp rise in online transactions. This encouraged various e-commerce websites to come up in the business. As the online transactions have become frequent and larger, it attracts even more cyber crime. Hackers are in the market too with more sophisticated tools. The eCommerce stores need to be guarded more than before. Here we will discuss if you are an ASPDotNetStoreFront website owner, what could be the security threats associated with your website and the measures to minimize those threats.

Security Threats

1. Disclosure of secret data: The confidential data provided by the customers during online transactions if disclosed could be misused. The website owners must ensure that the reach of such data is very limited. Data stealing can lead to money thefts as an e commerce involves a monetary transaction by using debit and credit card.


2. Demolition of data: Nothing can compensate the loss of data. It demands a proper backup system in place.


3. Mutation of data: Mutation of data could be severely damaging and hence proper measures should be taken to avoid it. File permission, data encryptions and digital signature etc. can be helpful in this case.


4. Denial of services: There are various ways of carrying out an attack of ‚¬"Denial of service‚¬. It is the most difficult to guard against it.


5. Repudiation: It occurs when a party involved in the transaction denies having taken part.


6. Identity thefts: A hacker can gain sensitive information about the user and can do transactions on his behalf. Such hackers seem to be legitimate but in reality they are damaging the user severely.


7. Threat to the system: There are various ways of stealing data from the system via Virus, Worms, and Trojans. Without a sound virus protection strategy is used by the eCommerce solution firm, such malicious agents can endanger the data of all the users.

Security Measures

The ASPDotNetStoreFront stories come with various inbuilt security measures. It is Visa PA-DSS Certified and goes through several 3rd-party security audits. Live sites running this software pass daily scan by 3rd-party tools like McAfee, Hacker Safe and ControlScan. In spite of all these security measures, there are extra steps recommended to the site administrators to protect their data.

• Encryption - The encryption of communication and transactions between the e commerce website and customers will enhance the privacy requirement eCommerce.


• Digital signature - Digital signature could be termed as the electronic equivalent of an individual written signature and are attached to the information sent during transactions to prove the authenticity of the sender and data.


• SSL Digital Certificates - SSL certification is used by the e- retailers to prove their authenticity. An online merchant with SSL digital certification identifies it as genuine. Such certificates are issued by the certification authorities.


• Educate the users - How to secure your online store is also depends on your customers. Therefore, it becomes necessary for e- retailer as to educate their users about the presence of the associated security threats with e- commerce and they should be guided for a secure online transaction.


• Password policy - Strict password policy can enhance the security of online transactions. By imposing certain restrictions like password length and formation, password duration, selection process and usability consideration, etc. makes it harder for the hackers to steal a password and misuse it.


• Multiple points of protection - For a proper and reliable security of your eCommerce website you need to enforce security measures at multiple levels. That means if you implement all the above security measures to your ASPDotNetStoreFront store, you provide maximum and strongest security channel to your customers.