Research Article
Information Security Measurement and E-Governance
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-27317-9_16, author={Subhash Chander and Ashwani Kush}, title={Information Security Measurement and E-Governance}, proceedings={Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology. Computer Science and Information Technology. Second International Conference, CCSIT 2012, Bangalore, India, January 2-4, 2012. Proceedings, Part III}, proceedings_a={CCSIT PART III}, year={2012}, month={11}, keywords={EPS UID CSC NeGP ICT}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-27317-9_16} }- Subhash Chander
Ashwani Kush
Year: 2012
Information Security Measurement and E-Governance
CCSIT PART III
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27317-9_16
Abstract
Security is a buzzword these days. One can hear certain fraud mails, transfer orders, money transfer from bank accounts and many more. Websites are hacked and day by day number of such cases is increasing in whole world. On the other side the number of websites is increasing with huge speed. All the departments whether Government or Private are trying to be online and are in a hurry to provide their more and more services on a mouse click. In such an environment to maintain security of online and digital information is a typical but an important issue. This issue is taken up in this paper and various ways to keep your network/information/website secure are also being discussed. Various existing security metrics their use and hurdles are discussed in the paper. A vulnerability grading scheme has been proposed for the use of novice users. In E-Governance and UID based projects security has to play an important role in their success and failure.