Starting an e-commerce initiative

Question

Assignment:

Part 1

• Give your opinion on what type of online threat would be most detrimental to an e-Commerce Website of your choice. Explain your answer.
• Using your answer to the previous discussion, explain which online security method would be the most efficient in preventing the online threat you identified.

Part 2

• A lot of customers use payment cards when purchasing items online. Identify the advantages and disadvantages for both the company and the customer in using payment cards for purchases.
• Due to phishing attacks online, identity theft is prevalent. Describe actions both a company and an individual customer can take in order to decrease the chances of falling victim to identity theft.

Part 3

• When beginning an e-Commerce initiative, explain why small businesses might have different objectives than large businesses and describe those differences by giving an example of a small business's possible objectives and a large business's possible objectives.
• Picking a business or organization with which you are familiar, create at least three likely objectives for its Website. Then, determine the tools that would be best used to measure these goals.

Part 4

• Compare the different types of outsourcing, citing advantages and disadvantages of each. Give your opinion on why one is more effective than the others.
• Identify a company that uses outsourcing specifically for e-Commerce functions and the type of outsourcing that is used. Explain how you came to your conclusion.