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Introduction: In the 2001 survey by the Computer Security Institute and the Federal Bureau of Investigation of 538 IT professionals a Fortune 500 corporations, universities and government agencies, about 85 percent of the respondents discovered computer security break-ins in the previous year. Additionally, 64 percent acknowledged financial losses from cyber-intrusions and reported losses of more than 377 million dollars. Monetary losses are due to the theft of proprietary information and corporate secrets, as well as online financial fraud. (Sindell, pg. 13) Computer security is a big issue in today’s world because almost everyone shops online for one thing or another. Throughout this paper I hope to inform you of the many different parts of an organization that have to deal with E-business security issues especially from the Chief Information Officer’s point of view. What is Electronic Commerce?: I will first make clear what electronic business security is. Electronic business security, which I will refer to as e-business security, is concerned with all aspects of how business information is collected and handled, how hardware and software process and communicate that information, how information is stored and prote