Internet and E-Business Security

Originally developed for research and education purposes as Arpanet in 1970s, the Internet has become a worldwide network that offers numerous services to the immense community of users. An everyday progress of the network technology brings also new security risks regarding a lot of sensitive data transferred over the network, especially in banking, commercial, and medical applications. Therefore the Internet security could be in general defined as a set of measures that should prevent vulnerabilities and misuse of data transmitted and used through the network.