E-government: Aspects of security on different layers

The global IT revolution is growing rapidly. Governments and businesses have to be, ready to meet the increased demand of effective, and secure online services. Providing secure online services in e-Government requires, however, careful deliberation on different levels and for the distinct domains of e-Government. The first issues on security coming in mind regard of course technical aspects. Here, many concepts and tools have been developed to provide, secure transactions, to protect against non-allowed access to information and data, to protect against hacker attacks etc. Yet, security aspects not only regard technical issues. Instead, these need careful investigation from a non technical viewpoint as well. In this contribution, we suggest a holistic concept that integrates security aspects from the strategic level down ta the data and information level in order to address different security aspects in a comprehensive way.