Essentials for the e-government security

In the modern digital age the world became a global village. Finger tips availability of all government services is the goal of every government. That's why the governments of today's world are transforming their manual government services to electronic government services frequently. In the meantime the entire digitization of the system is prone to various security issues. Clear steps must be taken to ensure the privacy, authentication, integrity, and availability etc. This paper outlines some essential measures related to the e-government security. It also adds the security index into the e-government assessment method of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (ESA) of United Nations (UN). The security index is based upon the international standard ISO 27001. Authors believe that the paper is useful for the policy makers, implementers and users of the e-government.