IFIP WG 11.8 established a series of conferences in 1999 entitled World Information Security Education (WISE). These conferences have been held every second year since then, with the eighth one being held in 2013. Not surprisingly, there has been numerous high quality papers presented and published in the WISE conference proceedings over the years. However, many of these publications are not easily accessible and are therefore not being readily cited. One of the reasons for the inaccessibility of these papers is that they have not been made widely available through either print or a well-known repository on the Web. Furthermore, a need exists to reflect on what has been done in the past in order to realize the future of these conferences and related events. In order to begin the process of addressing this need, this paper presents a review of the IFIP WG 11.8 publications through the ages. It also reflects briefly on the problems relating to the inaccessibility of these publications, the decline in paper submissions and the lack of citations.

E-Government offers many benefits to government agencies, citizens and the business community. However, e-Government services are prone to current and emerging security challenges posing potential threats to critical information assets. Securing it appears to be a major challenge facing governments globally. Based on the international security standards - the paper thoroughly investigates and analyzes eleven e-government maturity models (eGMMs) for security services. Further, it attempts to establish a common frame of reference for eGMM critical stages. The study utilizes the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) of scientific inquiry/ learning cycle adopted from Checkland and Scholes. The findings show that security services (technical and non-technical) are lacking in eGMMs - implying that eGMMs were designed to measure more quantity of offered e-government services than the quality of security services. Therefore, as a step towards achieving secure e-government services the paper proposes a common frame of reference for eGMM with five critical stages. These stages will later be extended to include the required security services.

e-Government maturity models (eGMMs) lack security services (technical and socio/non-technical) in its critical maturity stages. The paper proposes a comprehensive framework for integrating IT security services into eGMM critical stages. The proposed framework is a result of integrating information security maturity model (ISMM) critical levels into e-government maturity model (eGMM) critical stages. The research utilizes Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) of scientific inquiry adopted from Checkland and Scholes. The paper contributes to the theoretical and empirical knowledge in the following ways: firstly, it introduces a new approach that shows how government's can progressively secure their e-government services; secondly, it outlines the security requirements (technical and non-technical) for critical maturity stages of eGMM; and thirdly, it enhances awareness and understanding to the governments and stakeholders such as practitioners, experts and citizens on the importance of security requirements being clearly defined within eGMM critical stages.

The paper proposes a comprehensive information security maturity model (ISMM) that addresses both technical and socio/non-technical security aspects. The model is intended for securing e-government services (implementation and service delivery) in an emerging and increasing security risk environment. The paper utilizes extensive literature review and survey study approaches. A total of eight existing ISMMs were selected and critically analyzed. Models were then categorized into security awareness, evaluation and management orientations. Based on the model's strengths-three models were selected to undergo further analyses and then synthesized. Each of the three selected models was either from the security awareness, evaluation or management orientations category. To affirm the findings-a survey study was conducted into six government organizations located in Tanzania. The study was structured to a large extent by the security controls adopted from the Security By Consensus (SBC) model. Finally, an ISMM with five critical maturity levels was proposed. The maturity levels were: undefined, defined, managed, controlled and optimized. The papers main contribution is the proposed model that addresses both technical and non-technical security services within the critical maturity levels. Additionally, the paper enhances awareness and understanding on the needs for security in e-government services to stakeholders.