Given a situation when you are representing your e-business company involved in a security liability case, explain what the plaintiff must prove in order to win the case against your organization.

 

Answer:

A plaintiff needs to prove that the e-business company has violated the rules of Integrity, Authenticity, and Confidentiality of business.

An e-commerce company's security liabilities are mainly classified into three.

1) Integrity, 2) Authenticity, 3) Confidentiality

Integrity

It prevents any attempts to modify data in an unauthorized manner. In other terms, it is the ability to ensure that the information being displayed on a website is transmitted/received over the internet has not been altered in any way by an unauthorized party.

Example. Restricting an unauthorized attempt to intercept or redirect bank wire transfers into a different account.

Authenticity

Ability to recognize the identity of a person or entity with whom you are dealing on the internet.

Example. Prevention of 'spoofing' in which someone uses a fake email address, or poses as someone else to gain illegal access to the system. It can also involve redirecting a web link to a different address.

Confidentiality

Capacity to ensure that the data of customers are available only to those who are authorized to view it.

Example. Prevention of 'sniffing' a program is used to steal proprietary information on a network, credit/debit card data, e-mail messages, company files, or confidential reports.

So, if a customer finds that any of these mandatory security procedures are being compromised then they can sue the company for the damages it caused.