The major barriers to the Implementation of electronic commerce by businesses globally arc well understood. These comprise security and pnvacy issues, the lack of established regulations governing commercial behaviour and liability, and the lack of universally accepted standards. In this article. we focus on the security concerns of Australian SMEs. Medium, and especially small, enterprises are hindered in the implementation of communications security technology by a lack of expertize and a poor understandmg of the services and resources available to them. As a response to this situation, we examme the facilities avallable to Australian SMEs which help them to make reasonable e- secunty decisions as part of an overall e-busmess strategy. We demonstrate that there are sufficient resources at appropnate levels of availability to enable small and medium Australian enterprises to implement communicatlons security effectively.
History
Title of proceedings
Conference Proceedings - M-Business, E-Commerce and the Impact of Broadband on Regional Development and Business Prospects : Perth : June 22-24, 2003
Event
M-Business, E-Commerce and the Impact of Broadband on Regional Development and Business Prospects (2003 : Perth, Western Australia)
Publisher
Communication Economics and Electronic Markets Research Centre
Location
Perth, Western Australia
Place of publication
Perth, W.A.
Start date
2003-06-22
End date
2003-06-24
ISBN-13
9780646424934
ISBN-10
0646424939
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2003, Communication Economics and Electronic Markets Research Centre