Problem statement - Research Proposal Example

Information Security Problem ment INFORMATION SECURITY PROBLEM MENT The problem of cybercrime continues to be an issue in network security, drawing back the trust that several clients have to engage in electronic commerce transactions. Efforts continue to be put in by the computer security experts including state institutions such as the Bureau of National Investigations to tackle the specific problem of cyber crime, which continues to pose threat to network security. But it remains open secret that most of the interventions being put into the fight of cyber insecurity has failed because of how sophisticated cyber criminals have become (Gray, 2004; Lin, Fofanah and Liang, 2011).

Globalization continues to be an important phenomenon that drives the very basis upon which the modern economic climate functions (Kolsaker and Lee-Kelley, 2008). Meanwhile, the whole idea of globalization has been found to be an unfeasibility in the absence of a well harmonized network security (Kirschner, Buckingham and Carr, 2002). But often as companies try to take advantage of globalization and for that matter network security, the problem of cyber crime draws their aspirations back. Lately, the public perception associated with the embracement of electronic commerce has dwindled drastic because of how insecurity network security has become (Layton, 2007).

Current research shows that as much as the problem of cyber crime continues to unfold in various types of data theft for the operation and regularization of electronic commerce, the interest of the public to be involved in electronic commerce continues to go down (Peltier, 2001). Consequently, companies and other corporate bodies that rely on the services of computer networking through electronic commerce become the losers due to growing incidence of computer insecurity (Hung, Chang and Yu, 2006).

The current research that the problem seeks to address has to do with the impact of data and information insecurity through cyber insecurity on electronic commerce. REFERENCE LISTGray, D. E. (2004). Doing Research in the Real World. London: SAGE Publications.Hung, S.-Y., Chang, C.-M. & Yu, T.-J. (2006). Determinants of user acceptance of the e-Government services: The case of online tax filing and payment system, Government Information Quarterly, 23(3), pp. 97–122.Kirschner, P.A.; Buckingham S. S.J.

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