A Transparency Imperative: The SecurityBaseline. eu Revelation The recent launch of SecurityBaseline. eu has shed light on the deplorable state of web security among European governments.
By publishing data on 3,000 governmental sites that use tracking cookies illegally, over 1,000 database management interfaces that are publicly reachable, and nearly all governmental email that is poorly encrypted, this initiative has sparked a long overdue conversation about transparency in government online activities.
The metrics themselves are alarming, but they also highlight a more profound issue: the systemic lack of attention to basic web security measures.