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 to 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 concern not only technical issues. Instead, these need careful investigation from a non-technical viewpoint as well. We suggest a holistic concept that integrates security aspects from the strategic level down to the data and information level in order to address different security aspects in a comprehensive way