Security Model in E-government with Biometric based on PKI

Abstract

With the growth of Information Technology and the Internet, governments apply the same principles and technologies that are supporting E-business revolution, to achieve similar transformation. Security becomes necessary to protect the citizens and government information.In this paper a model has been proposed to obtain security services in the E-government based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). To achieve more security levels, Biometrics and Hardware token are used.

Access Control Model for Modern Virtual e-Government Services: Saudi Arabian Case Study

“…The authors in [36] introduce a security model for the e-Government in United Arab Emirates (UAE) that is based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) (certificate and digital signature), biometrics (finger print), and hardware security tools (Tokens). Another security model for e-Government was introduced by [37] which is also based on PKI in addition to SSL channel.…”

“…It can be a user requesting a service from a Web server or a Web server requesting a service from another Web server [27]. Web services have many advantages, including multiple heterogeneous platform compatibility [28], languageindependency [36], increased information availability and ease of access [29], and maintaining up-to-date data. However, Web services do not have any predefined security model, and therefore require the additional implementation of techniques to protect exchanged information [28], as well as the deployment of a framework that enforces a strong security architecture [30].…”