Secure Architecture for E-commerce Websites

With the rapid growth of Information Technology(IT), the current markets are being transformed into e-markets/ecommerce.This has created a need for a secure approach toimplement e-commerce and to keep its security. To meet thisneed, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), is one of the bestproficiencies to opt to, because it is flexible and easy to use.However, together with the advantages of SOA, there is also apossibility of unauthorized access of data, and interfering withkey data is also easy. It is therefore a challenge for someorganizations to implement secure e-commerce. This paper willexplore/highlight the significance of SOA for e-commerce andalso the issues/faults in the current e-commerce systems. Animplementation design of a secure architecture for an ecommercesystem supported by SOA has also been suggested inthis paper.