An IT Security Investigation into the Online Payment Systems of Selected Local Government Councils in WA

摘要

The paper examined information technology (IT) security of the online payment systems at the three selected local government councils in Western Australia (WA). The scope of the study included the architecture, the infrastructure devices, port scanning and vulnerability testing of the online payment system server, as well as online database application auditing. Several industry and national benchmarking standards were utilized in this study. The investigative work was also carried out with the intention of establishing a security framework which could be easily implemented or adapted to suit any other councils or organizations with a similar online payment system.