Abstract:
E-government is a kind of governmental administration which is based on electronic
information technology. One of the key factors that realizes integration and
information sharing to the inter-governmental administrations is the trust level.
Information security contributes directly to the increased level of trust and
confidence between the government departments by providing an assurance of
confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive governmental information.
The main objective of this research is to design of a framework for Sudanese egovernment
security model. It has identified the critical factors affecting egovernment
security in Sudan, and attempted to propose an e-government security
framework.
This proposed model of Sudanese e-services security is based on the existence of
technical and non-technical factors. This research proposes a framework for
Sudanese e-government security model that can be used as a tool to assess the level
of security readiness of government departments, a checklist for the required
security measures, and as a common reference for the security in the government
departments in Sudan. The framework was evolved from the analysis to the potential
security threats in Sudanese situation and how to countermeasure these threats.
Similar problems in othe countries were taken into account.
In this model four layers are proposed: a technical layer, IT infrastructure layer,
managerial layer and law and legislation layer. Each layer will mitigate group of
threats related to e- services.
