Abstract—The aim of this paper is to develop a comprehensive policy for the UAE e-Government, to protect the information systems and the exchange of information between different department’s employees and citizens using e-Government services. The lack of a comprehensive information security policy was identified as a major concern and barriers to developing a secure information system for e-Government. This work describes the development of comprehensive Information Security Policy, to ensure that the UAE e-Government departments, uses the same standards in every security instance. This will make it easier for different departments to integrate, and interact with citizens, and ensure that the UAE e-Government will always be able to protect the information assets in a manner that supports and is not in conflict with providing a high level of customer service.

Index Terms—information security, policy, security controls, e-government

Cite: Ibrahim H. Al-Mayahi and Sa’ad P. Mansoor, "Information Security Policy Development," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 135-139, June 2014. doi: 10.12720/joams.2.2.135-139