SecureGov: secure data sharing for government services

  • Authors:
  • John (Jong Uk) Choi;Soon Ae Chun;Dong Hwa Kim;Angelos Keromytis

  • Affiliations:
  • Sangmyung University, Seoul, Korea;Columbia University & City Univ of New York, Staten Island, NY;MarkAny, Ssanglim-dong, Seoul, Korea;Columbia University, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Open Government initiative allows government data available digitally to share and integrate to produce value added information products and citizen services. This "paperless" government facilitates the transparency of government and fosters collaboration across government agencies and among citizens. The citizen services often require sharing citizen data and documents among many different collaborating government agencies, which may contain sensitive information of citizens. In this environment, the security and privacy issues become a paramount priority to build a trust-worthy and sustainable smart government. Even though the existing PKI systems can provide secure exchange of information between two organizations, preventing illegal modification, edits, or transfers of sensitive data to a third parties for unintended purposes is essential at the end user side. In this paper, we present a security and trusted framework for secure Government Data Sharing (SecureGov), implemented in the Public Information Sharing Center (PISC) under the Ministry of Public Administration and Security in Korea. The layered security framework uses combined technologies, including usage control scheme called Enterprise Digital Right Management (E-DRM) to prevent illegal use and leakage, a forgery prevention technology using a 2-D barcode to prevent illegal modification of the data, and PKI scheme to ensure the authenticity of the data.