  Rapid evolution of information technology has contributed to the evolution of
more sophisticated E- commerce system with the better transaction time and
protection. The currently used E-commerce models lack in quality properties
such as logical security because of their poor designing and to face the highly
equipped and trained intruders. This editorial proposed a security framework
for small and medium sized E-commerce, based on service oriented architecture
and gives an analysis of the eminent security attacks which can be averted. The
proposed security framework will be implemented and validated on an open source
E-commerce, and the results achieved so far are also presented.
