In digital communications among governments, citizens, and businesses, information security is increasingly important.
Modern ICT security standards prevent misuse of sender identification and ensure secure data exchange, protecting government communications with citizens and businesses from interception or manipulation. Additionally, government websites and emails must be clearly recognisable to citizens and business owners.
Improve security and identifiability
Secure government websites
The HTTPS security standard ensures visitors can verify they are interacting with a legitimate government website.
Identifiability of government websites and email addresses
To improve the identifiability and security of the digital government, the Ministry of BZK is working on 3 tracks.
Advice: No generic top-level domains (gTLDs) for the (national) government
Based on the '1 government' principle, the Ministry of BZK recommends that government agencies avoid using their own generic top-level domains.
