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B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

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Internet Security 319<br />

Continued from page 318<br />

- &jer 500 separate entities and<br />

market makers in power industry<br />

- Trading an estimated $35 billion+ in<br />

electric pow er transmission capacity<br />

Figure 10.20. — OASIS consists of over 500 separate entities and market<br />

makers in the electric power industry, trading an estimated $35 billion in<br />

transmission capacity<br />

generates multi-million dollar transactions demands both dataencryption<br />

and user-authentication capability. Security has <strong>to</strong> be strong<br />

enough <strong>to</strong> guarantee the integrity of the billing and payments that<br />

will soon be transferred on<strong>to</strong> OASIS. OASIS sites that have implemented<br />

TradeWave's TradeVPI (Virtual Private Internet) solution<br />

have overcome each of the security concerns that previously stunted<br />

the development of e-<strong>commerce</strong> on the Web.<br />

Security concerns that OASIS participants face include effective<br />

authorization mechanism that controls users' access <strong>to</strong> the VPN, as<br />

well as control over what information users can view, based on their<br />

level of trust. Mutual authentication is needed <strong>to</strong> verify both those<br />

sending and those receiving information. Strong encryption is needed,<br />

along with <strong>to</strong>ols that ensure that messages are not altered in any<br />

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