About the course The internet is a highly functional but potentially very insecure means of enacting or controlling a business. It represents very low costs of network ownership but exposes your company to the accumulated risks of a vast number of unknown connecting machines and persons, over whom you have no control. The course aims to show you how e-commerce works, what the main risks are and how best practice should be followed to mitigate those risks. Audience Anyone who needs to know and understand the elements of e-commerce, from a security or audit standpoint, must attend this course. The IT technical components will be explained to you, so you will understand how the various elements work together. Also, the organisational and management aspects of e-commerce, equally critical, are addressed. Auditors, security specialists, e-commerce project managers and project owners will all benefit from this course. You will find some of the components of e-commerce in the lab and will have a chance to examine it first hand – PKI software, a web site, CGI programs, a firewall and much more. We will show you how to find your way around web sites representing best practice in e-commerce. Learn how to examine browser and web server configurations. Prerequisites Delegates should have a reasonable knowledge of IT in general. You should feel comfortable investigating system settings through a Windows GUI interface, as well as entering line commands in console environments. Some investigations may be carried out on a UNIX platform. The course has technical content, but this is technically in breadth, rather than depth. Audience If you come from one of these business areas, you would find the course very useful: An application developer seeking a wider view of the wired-world An IT manager wishing to understand how the technology fits together and what the risks are A senior user or system owner wishing to establish sources of risk An e-commerce project manager Computer auditors and computer audit planners Computer security specialists Business risk analysts Legal experts who need to understand how e-commerce works and how the components are connected together Duration 3 days