One of the greatest gifts of human efforts working towards
improvement of technology is the introduction of Internet. These
signal transmissions not only connect people across large distances
but also open a gateway of knowledge and information accessible to
all. The increased facility and ease of usage has not only raised
the number of users on the electronic platform but has also
volumized the available services on this platform.
E-services have a vast domain
Online services offered via internet include information
retrieval; communication via email, audio/video calls; ecommerce
through portals permitting sale/ purchase of goods/ services; bank
transactions, etc. The access to such services requires the
personal and sensitive information of the users. Often, the
disclosure of such personal and sensitive information leads to
criminal activities such as impersonation, data theft, financial
theft, hacking, privacy invasion, etc.