Secure Architecture for E-commerce Websites

With the rapid growth of Information Technology (IT), the current markets are being transformed into e-markets/e-commerce. This has created a need for a secure approach to implement e-commerce and to keep its security. To meet this need, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), is one of the best proficiencies to opt to, because it is flexible and easy to use. However, together with the advantages of SOA, there is also a possibility of unauthorized access of data, and interfering with key data is also easy. It is therefore a challenge for some organizations to implement secure e-commerce. This paper will explore/highlight the significance of SOA for e-commerce and also the issues/faults in the current e-commerce systems. An implementation design of a secure architecture for an e-commerce system supported by SOA has also been suggested in this paper.