Electronic Commerce Stimulates Total Network Security Approach

摘要

Protecting electronic commerce on the Internet is a very secretive and unforgiving business. Robust security, however, is pivotal to its phenomenal expansion as networks surge toward a $200 billion market within the next two years. This demand for vigorous network refuge is creating a $6 billion worldwide security industry market, growing at a rate of more than 50 percent a year. Security is the overriding concern as worldwide industry exploits Internet applications to increase productivity and competitiveness, shifting mission-critical functions to networks. Analysts believe that adopting new network security technologies and practices at a rapid pace is the sine qua non for leveraging today's wired world. Standards-based interoperable products are necessary to protect networks from security risks inside and outside an organization, they claim.