Securing e-Commerce Web Sites

The job of building an e-commerce web site never stops. The web site, as the technology itself, constantly evolves. Security risks change as the site positions itself on the net, and, as the platform used by the site become obsolete. The different web site configuration, and approaches shown in this document come to prove, that the network level protection that so many web sites have become costumed to, might not be enough. The use of advanced configurations and fil tering mechanisms is currently the only way to 'keep-up' with the increasing risks of conducting business on the Internet. Companies such as Check Point that have long been identified as a packet-filtering firewall software manufacture have developed their software to provide application filtering capabilities with the use of 'Secure-Servers'10. This shows us that market leaders have identified the need for application level filtering.