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Roger Clarke's 'Mobile Payment Security'

A Risk Assessment Framework for Mobile Payments

Roger Clarke **

Outline of 31 January 2011

Prepared for a seminar in the Information Technology Department of Bond University, on 11 February 2011

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Abstract

Progress in Mobile Commerce is heavily dependent on effective and reliable payment mechanisms. Security concerns loom as a major impediment to widespread and rapid adoption, and there is accordingly an urgent need for a framework within which security issues in mobile commerce can be evaluated. This paper draws on lessons from prior payment mechanisms, and applies risk assessment theory, in order to develop such a framework. It provides insights into the use of the framework by performing a test application. Implications for policy, practice and research are drawn.


The presentation draws on the following papers:

Clarke R. & Maurushat A. (2007) 'The Feasibility of Consumer Device Security' Submission to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to its Review of the Electronic Funds Transfer Code of Conduct, April 2007, at http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/ConsDevSecy.html

Clarke R. (2008) 'A Risk Assessment Framework for Mobile Payments' Proc. 21st Bled eCommerce Conf., June 2008, pp. 63-77, at http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/MP-RAF.html


Resources

The presentation draws on a working paper on The Feasibility of Consumer Device Security, co-authored with Alana Maurushat, (currently at UNSW in Sydney, but previously in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong).

General References

Relatively Secure Payment

Relatively Very Insecure Payment

Variously Reasonably Secure and Insecure


Acknowledgements

Earlier versions of this seminar were presented at the University of Hong Kong on 25 October 2007, at the Victoria Uni of Wellington on 1 May 2008, and at the Bled eConference in Slovenia on 17 June 2008.


Author Affiliations

Roger Clarke is Principal of Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra. He is also a Visiting Professor in the E-Commerce Programme at the University of Hong Kong, a Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of N.S.W., and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University.



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