Security Engineering in G-Cloud: A Trend towards Secure e-Governance

Government is nowadays trying to improve efficiency using technologies from IT industry to stimulate its processes more efficiently and faster. Hence, e-Governance was brought into existence, e-governance provided services like e-banking, fund transfer, e-billing, online registration etc online. To ameliorate things further and introduce more advantages, it was proposed to rebuild e-Governance applications and services in terms of cloud computing which we call Government-Cloud (G-Cloud). G-Cloud gathers its set of benefits of centralization, scalability etc. from cloud computing and also caters security benefits to e-Governance. But with this comes many security risks which have to be brought under consideration. In this paper we are discussing the security benefits of G-Cloud and also risks associated with this reconstruct