BEING PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL OF AHMADU
BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE
DEGREE OF MASTERS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND DIPLOMACY (MIAD)
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
MARCH 2012

http://kubanni.abu.edu.ng:80/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1706/1/THE%20CHALLENGES%20OF%20GLOBALIZATION%20ON%20E-COMMERCE%20IN%20NIGERIA.pdf

The challenges of globalization on e-commerce in nigeria

This paper presents a comparative survey of cyber-threat and attack trends starting from 2010 till date. Cyber security breaches are constantly on the rise with huge uncertainty and risks. The trend is causing rife globally because of its consequences to national security and economy. With diverse interests and motivations for various categories of threats and attacks, we carried out a comparative survey and analysis of security breaches to unravel the patterns and predict what will shape future security challenges. The diversity of attacks and growing state actors’ involvement without any sort of regulation is making cyber weapons attractive to the states. States are leveraging the anonymity and attribution flaws to hit hard on perceived adversaries thereby complicating the cyber security equation.

Comparative Survey of Cyber-Threat and Attack Trends and Prediction of Future Cyber-Attack Patterns.

In an emerging economy like Nigeria, internet-based businesses are growing at an exponential rate but this growth is highly threatened by many instances of fraud and e-systems’ compromise. While a lot of research work has been done on how to secure e-commerce transaction protocols, improve cryptographic schemes and amend the technical and business issues in e-commerce, the area of mitigating security challenges by incorporating security modules at design time has not been thoroughly explored. Hence, in this paper we present a framework for e-commerce security with a focus on four security design countermeasures models; Authentication, Authorization, enforcement of Access Control and Protection of Transaction privacy. The proposed framework which enhances National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST) security model, ensures that adequate security measures are incorporated in an e-commerce system at design time. The framework also ensures designing of secured e-commerce systems which are devoid of the expensive cost implication of system development life cycle incurred by security defects in the system testing phase which traces back to design shortfalls. For the purpose of this research work, we evaluate features called Malicious Attack Enablers (MAE) which aid malicious attack to thrive. The proposed framework will, therefore, aim at securing e-systems against these MAEs while satisfying legitimate user requirements. We assert the competence of our proposed framework by incorporating our security models into a SET enabled existing e-commerce system design, which will illustrate the effectiveness of our framework at the design phase as opposed to waiting till the testing phase. So we show that our new framework will unscramble the design of cost-effective e-commerce systems with curbed security vulnerabilities while contributing to the improvement of e-commerce security standards.

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Designing A New Framework for Securing Electronic Commerce Systems at Design Phase: With A Special Reference to an Emerging Economy