M24864: The proliferation of recent online security incidents is of particular concern to both retailers and customers a like: Security and Cryptography Assignment,, Singapore

The proliferation of recent online security incidents is of particular concern to both retailers and customers a like. A number of high-profile cases had taken place in Singapore over the past few years which resulted in reputational and branding losses, suffered by the retailers.

E-commerce enterprises have become very concerned about the state of their data security. They are aware of the legal liability of violating the Personal Data Protection Act 2012, PCI-DSS; in losing customer data. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, electronic commerce had taken traction with a huge spike in online transactions which calls for improved security for online transactions.

You are currently working as an IT Security consultant in an E-commerce company. The CEO of your company would like you to propose a detailed plan to protect the company assets and work on the following security areas.

• Confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements of customers’ records
  during collection, and storage at the central database, in compliance with the relevant data protection acts.
• Safeguarding customers’ records against increasingly common web-based bot attacks at the central database.
• Strengthening the intranet-based access control to the company’s central database by staff.