| Hack Proofing Your E-Commerce Site was written in response to requests from readers of our first book, Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft. Many of you asked us for more detail on how to protect e-commerce sites, given the unique risk and exposure such sites represent to organizations.We hope this book answers all of your questions on the topic and then some. If your organization engages in e-commerce, you will find this book invaluable, especially if security has been dealt with in a reactive fashion in the past. If you are a seasoned security professional, we believe that the level of detail in this book will be useful in covering topics such as customer privacy policies and securing financial transactions.
As practitioners, we encounter two types of networks:Those that haven’t been hacked and those that have. Our goal is to provide you with the tools and resources to avoid seeing your network become part of the latter group.To that end, this book is thoroughly practical.We recognize that doing the “right” thing—creating a forensics laboratory and halting production to investigate each breach in painstaking detail—is beyond most staff resources, so we offer realworld solutions to approach that ideal within your limits.
This book shares a feature in common with many Syngress books: It teaches why along with how.This is especially critical in the world of information security because technologies evolve at such a rapid pace and are also incredibly diverse.There are as many different ways to piece together an e-commerce site as there are e-commerce sites. It wouldn’t be possible to anticipate any given reader’s configuration.We present material that is designed to make you think.We want you to be able to take the information presented and adapt it to your situation.
—Ryan Russell, CCNA, CCNP
Security in the virtual world of the Internet is even more confusing than in the real world we inhabit. Buzzwords and marketing hype only serve to add to the puzzle.Vendors and free products abound, but according to the experts, the Internet world is becoming more dangerous every day. How can that be? How can all these solutions from so many directions not solve even the basic problems?
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