National registers

National registers are key elements of a safe eGovernment infrastructure which guarantees secure data storage and citizen privacy protection.

National registers group citizen data and provide secure and controlled data exchange with other institutions of the eGovernment system. There are multiple kinds of national registers which are primarily classified by the type and purpose of data which the register contains, but the key national register of every eGovernment infrastructure is certainly the Citizen National Register (NatReg).

NATIONAL CITIZEN REGISTER

National Citizen Register (NatReg) contains the data of all citizens of a country’s population. NatReg is the very heart of the eGovernment system, managing both the textual demographic data (name, surname, date of birth…), as well as very sensitive biometric data (facial photograph, fingerprint, iris scan…). NatReg keeps a very detailed and secure system activity journal, which provides control and a non-repudiation of key system operations. 

Citizen data in NatReg is updated according to particular life events of citizens, such as the birth of a child, marital status or address changes. National Citizen Register contains “master data” about citizens on the entire government administration level. NatReg safely manages this data by strictly controlling who can access it and by exchanging the data with other confidential government systems.

NatReg is the very heart of the eGovernment system

NATREG Platform

NatReg platform supports:

NatReg strictly controls which system functionalities and which type of data are accessed by both operators and external systems. The systems keeps a cryptographically protected journal of all data changes and actions, which guarantees not only data privacy, but also the ability to track the entire history of data changes of a particular person. In order to achieve a high level of data protection, NatReg is usually established in combination with our Cryptographically Protected Audit Log (CPAL) subsystem which links data groups and then signs them digitally using cryptographic keys stored on the Hardware Security module (HSM) device. This is how the system data is protected from all sorts of internal threats (including malicious system administrator threats).

Majority of eGovernment systems use some sort of Government Service Bus for exchanging data among various government institutions. Since the protection of government data is of the highest priority, NatReg systems is recommended to be established together with the Crypto Proxy subsystem for secure system authentication on the Government Service Bus and reliable data exchange. What is achieved in this way is the highest security level regarding data exchange between national registers and other systems which have access to the state main of data. Crypto Proxy guarantees that only qualified institutions may access the state data main and that the exchanged data is visible only to the intended institutions.

NatReg and IDStar are two cornerstones on which the entire electronic identity and citizen data management infrastructure is based. Together they trace secure state processes and form a reliable digital database for online authentication and physical identification of citizens, securing the data and creating the basis for a fully digitalized government administration.

NatReg and IDStar are two cornerstones on which the entire electronic identity and citizen data management infrastructure is based. Together they trace secure state processes and form a reliable digital database for online authentication and physical identification of citizens, securing the data and creating the basis for a fully digitalized government administration.