Preventing national identity forgery in Bangladesh using IGA based security controls

Abstract

The rapid diffusion of the internet coupled with the vision of ”Digital Bangladesh” has given rise to e-government services to improve the capability, accountability, and accessibility of different e-government services like E-banking, online Election Commission service, E-passport service etc. In this digital age, e-government services are quickly becoming one of the most efficient and vital practices in Bangladesh, allowing governments to communicate with businesses, people, employees, and even other government organizations. But besides these tremendous opportunities, e-services also have to face some serious security challenges, as the main factors of e-service practice and security are different from traditional government services because of the online environment. The government has to face more security threats in online services. According to a January 2018 estimate, there are roughly 17.61 lakh internet banking customers, with the majority of individuals using internet banking for fraudulent transfer operations. According to a Bangladesh Bank data report from January 2018, around 7.18 lakh transactions, totaling 2175 crore taka, were conducted over the internet banking network. Besides E-banking, E-passport and online NID services are widely used by users throughout the country. Furthermore, throughout the last two decades, security concerns in the E-service arena have received increased attention. So, we should be concerned about the security issues surrounding these services so that citizens can use online services more efficiently with the highest security possible. So, our work will be focused on the most important and sensitive E-government service, the online NID service, to find all the possible security failings or weaknesses of this service initially. After that, we will work to establish a Plug-and-Play (PnP) model to secure our systems. This model hopefully captures the E-service technology security issues in Bangladesh and the proactive measures to reduce and uproot or reduce all those security threats.