E-government security

Mohammad Obaidat; Noureddine Boudriga

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511536700.012

8 - E-government security

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2009

Mohammad Obaidat and

Noureddine Boudriga

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Mohammad Obaidat: Affiliation:
Monmouth University, New Jersey
Noureddine Boudriga: Affiliation:
Université du 7 Novembre à Carthage, Tunis

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Governments worldwide have dedicated the efforts to deliver their services in ways that meet the needs of businesses and citizens they serve in order to enable them to interact securely in places and at times that are convenient to them. It is commonly agreed that bringing trust and confidence is essential to increase the uptake of e-government services. This chapter provides key support to service providers wishing to provide e-government services in a trusted manner. It lays the foundations for enabling secure services that will really transform the way citizens and businesses interact with government.

Introduction

E-government is to provide a non-stop government information service. The goal is to create a friendly easy-to-use tool for the public and businesses to locate information and use services made available on the net by the government agencies. It aims to provide a large spectrum of public information, authorize a greater and better access to this information, and give more convenience to government services. E-government projects have been started in the mid 1990s in various countries. Each country has assigned its own project with varying focuses, applications, and security mechanisms. Nowadays, some of these projects are in their operational phase, while others are still in the design or prototyping phases. However, as computer power is growing to be cheaper and computer networks are becoming larger and more efficient, many threats against e-government have been observed lately. Threats unfortunately tend to reduce the efficiency of e-government and limit its promises.

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Information: Security of e-Systems and Computer Networks , pp. 169 - 195

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511536700.012 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2007

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