MCA 405: Foundation of E-Commerce
Lecture Plan

Lecture

Topic

Reference

Remarks

1.

Definition of E- Commerce, Economic potential of electronic commerce

R1-Chap1

 

2.

Incentives for engaging in electronic commerce, forces behind E-Commerce

R1-Chap1

 

3.

Impact of E-commerce on business.

 

 

4

Architectural framework,

R1-Chap2

 

5

Network Infrastructure for E- Commerce: Internet and Intranet based E-commerce- Issues

R1-Chap2

 

6

Network Infrastructure, Network Access Equipments,

R1-Chap2, Chap19

 

7

Broadband telecommunication (ATM, ISDN, FRAME RELAY).

R1-Chap2, Chap19

 

8

Mobile Commerce: Introduction, Wireless Application Protocol

R1-Chap20

 

9

WAP technology, Mobile Information

R1-Chap20

 

10

device Mobile Computing Applications.

R1-Chap20

 

11

Security Issues on web

R1-Chap5

 

12

Importance of Firewall, components of Firewall

R1-Chap5

 

13

Importance of Firewall, components of Firewall, Transaction security

R1-Chap5

 

14

Emerging client server, Security Threats, Network Security

R1-Chap5

 

15

Factors to consider in Firewall design, Limitation of Firewalls.

R1-Chap5

 

16

Limitation of Firewalls.

R1-Chap5

 

17

Encryption techniques

R2 Chap7

 

18

Symmetric Encryption

R2 Chap7

 

19

Keys and data encryption standard

R2 Chap8

 

20

Triple encryption,

R2 Chap8

 

21

Secret key encryption,

R2 Chap8

 

22

public and private pair key encryption

R2 Chap9

 

23

Digital Signatures

R2 Chap9

 

24

Digital Signatures

R2 Chap9

 

25

Virtual Private Network.

R2 Chap7

 

26

Electronic Payments: Overview

R2 Chap7

 

27

The SET protocol, Payment Gateway, certificate

R2 Chap9

 

28

Digital Tokens, Smart card,

R2 Chap9

 

29

Smart card, credit card, magnetic strip card

R2 Chap9

 

30

E-Checks, Credit/Debit card based EPS

R2 Chap9

 

31

Online Banking.

R2 Chap9

 

32

EDI Application in business

R1-Chap9

 

33

E- Commerce Law

R1-Chap15

 

34

Legal Issues Regarding E-Commerce

R2 Chap12

 

35

E-Governance

R2 Chap12

 

36

Forms of Agreement, Govt. policies and Agenda

R1-Chap15

 

R1: Frontiers of Electronic Commerce, Ravi Kalakota & Andrew B. Whinston
R2: E-commerce, Mamta B., Firewall Media

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