I am planning to design an online membership and payment management system on the web.
It will have a back-end and a frond-end. The back end will be using Microsoft S SQL server 2000 for my database.(You can write here about SQL injection, etc. My front ?end I will be using is Microsoft Visual Studio c# .net.

my research topics is: Database security (how to implement security mechanism protecting sensitive and critical information when they are reachable through http)

STRUCTURE AND LAYOUT EXAMPLE IF YOU WISH YOU CAN USE IT BUT MUST BE SIMILAR TO THIS LAYOUT

The structure can be something like this:

1. Introduction
2. The goal of Security
3. Physical Security
4. Identify threats
4.1 Hardware
4.2 Software
4.3 Communication Network
4.4 Concurrency
4.5 Malicious Attack
4.6 User errors

5. Security Mechanisms to protect a database
5.1 Integrity
5.2 Authorisation Access Controls and Authentication
5.3 View
5.4 Concurrency Control
5.5 Audit Tracking
5.6 Encryption
5.7 Backup & Recovery
5.8 SQL Injection

6 Web Securities
6.1 Firewall
6.2 SSL
6.3 ???..

7. Conclusion
8.Critical Evaluation

9. Reference

These are examples write whatever is appropriate for the research topic

PLEASE TRY to make it simple and easy English structure so I can understand
Try and get different opinion and ideas form different authors

USE minimum 15 reference
Reference from academic journals, books and other useful resources. It would be best if you can find good academic journals.

THIS ARE same websites to help you find same journals

http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3418281
http://databases.about.com/od/security/

If you type in Google: Improving web Application security from Microsoft
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/threatcounter.asp
You can Download
Download Improving Web Application Security from the MS.com Download Center in .pdf format.
CITE USING HARVARD REFERENCE CORRECTLY