A proposed strategy for secure and trusted environment in e-government

Abstract

The Internet as a primary means of the implementation of e-Government is an insecure channel and can provide a loophole, which allows the emergence of various types of threat and vulnerability. This becomes an obstacle in the efforts to increase the participation of the community and gives impacts in decreasing the trust in the system. Therefore, a strategy that involves technological as well as conceptual aspects needs to be carried to realize a secure and trusted environment on e-government. This paper gives an overview of the strategy based on security and trust in one comprehensive solution that can be applied to achieve the goal through the integration of five components, namely: security and standard, security policy, trusted computing, defense-in-depth strategy and human factor. Through this paper then all parties involved in e-government may reconsider a strategy that has been set up to give attention to the issue of secure and trust in the implementation of e-government system.