App Security
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As government apps can hold a significant amount of citizen data, the consequences of an attack could potentially be devastating. With vulnerable government apps, sensitive citizen data, such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII) could get stolen, which might be severe for users. One could argue that by not sufficiently securing their apps, governments are jeopardising highly sensitive citizen data.
Vulnerable Government Apps
In some cases, citizens have few other options than to use the app provided by the government to be able to access certain services. For instance, COVID-vaccine certificates are becoming more and more common, and not having it can, to some extent, limit rights for people to move freely. However, problems might occur when these apps don’t have sufficient security in place.
In 2020, governments worldwide saw the need to create COVID apps to try to stay on top of the corona-situation. Unfortunately, not all of them were secure.
Morten Pedersen