SHOW ME By Ian Harvey


he way some consultants describe it, shifting your business model to an e-commerce platform is as easy as opening a lemonade stand. As usual the devil lurks in the details: how are you going to store your cus- tomers’ information? Will that solution meet PIPEDA requirements? What about other compliance and regulations? What about the Patriot Act? What about PCI


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FOR MANY COMPANIES, THE WORLD OF E-COMMERCE IS WHERE FORTUNES ARE MADE, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO SECURITY AND PROTECTING CUSTOMERS, CONDUCTING BUSINESS ONLINE CAN BE A NIGHTMARE, CONSISTING OF HIDDEN PITFALLS AND DANGEROUS PREDATORS


DSS compliance? How will you let your potential customers know your network is safe and that you are who you say you are? These are just some of the security- related questions a company must ask before venturing online to what many hope is a wide world of riches. Even before one starts to create the content and collateral to showcase his or her products or evangelize his or services


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online, there are a few basic concepts to figure out. Chief among them: what about the money?


The apparent simplicity of an online transaction belies the complexity involved because the public nature of the Internet makes it akin to waving a wad of bank notes in the seamy side of town at 3 a.m. Darren McMullin, CEO of PayPay Canada, says structuring the transactional


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