UAE a pioneer in secure digital transactions, says Eida chief

“These two components impact decisively in all service-providing systems, especially when these systems deal with sensitive data,” said Dr Ali Mohamed Al Khouri, Director-General of the Emirates Identity Authority (Eida), in a research paper published in the European Scientific Journal, a premier journal that carries peer-reviewed academic papers by academics from more than 120 countries.

The paper, written by Dr Al Khouri in scholarly collaboration with Muhammad Farmer and Jameel Qadri, Professor and Research Fellow, respectively, of the British Institute of Technology and E-commerce, London, and titled ‘A Government Framework to Address Identity, Trust and Security in E-Government: The Case of UAE Identity Management Infrastructure’, called upon governments to develop integrated electronic and information infrastructure with a view to make the e-transition more effective, more reliable and secure and to link it to advanced and smart systems of identity management.

“It offers the four main security features that any secured network should have — authentication, data integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation. This robust security and identity mechanism is important to build the required level of trust between the citizen on one side and the government on the other.

“To make e-government effective and inclusive, users of the information infrastructure of the country expect reliable security for their transactions to be in place. On the other hand, the expectation of government entities is that the users of their respective systems are authentic and legally entitled to be using the system,” the paper concludes.