Digital government security infrastructure design challenges

Author

Joshi, James ; Ghafoor, Arif ; Aref, Walid G. ; Spafford, Eugene H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

34

Issue

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

72

Abstract

Information age technologies provide enormous opportunities for a government to transform its functions into the digital arena. Doing so taps the wellspring of information technology benefits that have driven down off-the-shelf component costs and fuelled an unprecedented improvement rate in the cost-performance ratio. We can view a digital government (DG) as an amalgam of heterogeneous information systems in which government agencies and public and private sectors exchange a high volume of information. Designing security systems for a digital government´s multidomain environment requires a careful balancing act between providing convenient access and carefully monitoring permissions

Keywords

government data processing; information technology; security; social aspects of automation; cost-performance ratio; digital government security infrastructure design; digital government´s multidomain environment; heterogeneous information systems; information age technologies; information technology benefits; private sectors; security systems; Access control; Authentication; Availability; Data security; Decision making; Information security; Information systems; Information technology; Protection; US Government;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.901169

Filename

901169