Title
E-commerce security threats: awareness, trust and practice
Abstract
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has always been accompanied by security concerns. Despite numerous studies in the areas of security and trust, to date there is a dearth of research that addresses the impact of security trust and security awareness on the prevalence of online activities. This study investigates the relationships among awareness of security threats, security trust, frequency of e-commerce activities and security practices. The results presented herein suggest that security awareness level is positively correlated to security practices. The security trust level of frequent e-commerce users is higher than that of infrequent e-commerce users. The study also found that there was no significant correlation between trust level and awareness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1504/IJISCM.2008.019287
IJISCM
Keywords
Field
DocType
security trust level,frequent e-commerce user,security concern,security practice,e-commerce security threat,security awareness,security awareness level,security threat,trust level,security trust,e-commerce activity,e commerce,trust,electronic commerce,awareness
Security awareness,Internet privacy,Public relations,Security engineering,Computer science,Cloud computing security,Information security management,Computational trust,Security information and event management,Corporate security,Security management
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
3
1
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jim Q. Chen11018.92
Mark B. Schmidt29514.20
Dien D. Phan313513.76
Kirk P. Arnett458854.77