Digital government security infrastructure design challenges

Information age technologies provide enormous opportunities for a government to transform its functions into the digital arena. Doing so taps the wellspring of information technology benefits that have driven down off-the-shelf component costs and fuelled an unprecedented improvement rate in the cost-performance ratio. We can view a digital government (DG) as an amalgam of heterogeneous information systems in which government agencies and public and private sectors exchange a high volume of information. Designing security systems for a digital government's multidomain environment requires a careful balancing act between providing convenient access and carefully monitoring permissions.