computer security/security management

AMAZON .COM PAYMENTS SYSTEM

RISK ASSESMENT REPORT

Executive Summary

Amazon .com is an e-commerce company that opened up its virtual stores in July 1995 , with a mission of using the internet to transform its book business into a faster and easier shopping experience . Due to the increasing business competition and better internet selling opportunities , the organization decided to diversify from its books business on to offer various services and products such as electronics greeting cards , online auctions , toys and much more on its electronic retail platform . In addition to this

, the company has also managed to introduce gift vouchers and a personal wish list page which friends or family members can use to select gifts

The organization has managed to introduce the Amazon marketplace mainly for the third party sellers dealing with both new used items , there is the Amazon associates which allows the organizations clients to act as third party traders of its products from their own independent websites This has enabled the company to serve its application developers through its Amazon web services which provides to them the needed technological infrastructure that developers use in generating any type of business

Amazons key selling point has been its ability to use advanced software 's to monitor each of its online customers preference , this has enabled it to easily suggest similar products that are likely to be of interest to the customer which has been enabled by personalized webpage and e-mail system (Hossein Bidgoli , 2002 ,

.73 . For instance , the...