Many businesses have invested in Internet access technologies, are online and ready to expand their commercial capabilities into this emerging marketplace. Consumers should come online as the costs of Internet access decrease, data throughput increases and Internet connectivity becomes as simple to initiate and commonplace in the home as television and telephones. Low confidence in security technologies has also restricted growth of E-Commerce activity. Business confidence in secure transactions is higher and continues to increase as electronic payment and encryption technologies are widely employed. It is important to note that this issue is strictly about confidence.
Secure technology exists today.
This indicates that business is either more informed or willing to take risks than consumers are. A third barrier to growth is the concern of legal issues, mostly the uncertainty of litigious boundaries. Since the Internet crosses political boundaries, legal jurisdiction is in question. An E-Commerce operation is an integration of Internet technologies, systems, applications and practices. It may use any information system, such as web sites, intranets, extranets, groupware, and document management systems.