DEEP is Pakistan’s (probably) largest Information Security Project with World Bank backed funding of about USD 78 million, and aims to digitize the core of Government services by providing a National Data Exchange Layer (NDEL) and Digital Identity. Project Goals and Components Enhance Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): Build capabilities for responsible data exchange, digital authentication, and verifiable credentials to support a digital economy and society. Improve Government Service Delivery: Digitize public services through a national portal and platform-based approach, making them more accessible and efficient, especially for vulnerable groups.

Functions Roles Super Administrator: Security Officer: Admin Registration Authority Officer (RAO): Will have a High Trust Certificate issuing process. and not the natural person certificates. Enterprise RAO: Also known as Local Registration Authority. This role can be deployed in a client enterprise for convenience of customer handling for the provided service. Auditor: This has the view of reviewing logs. High Trust Certificates: SSL certificate, Code-Signing or e-Seal certificate are called high trust certificates because they are issued to the Organizations and can only be issued by the Admin RAO.

Following is a list of Services employed via ITIL: Incident Management: Event Management: Change/Release Management: Asset Management: Configuration Management: Problem Management: Knowledge Management: End Point Protection Knowledgebase: Knowledge articles are created to avoid such issues in the future. Q: Why are we employing ITIL and not some other process (i.e. COBIT)? A: Deployment is not an actual/certifiable ITIL deployment, but to establish a formal minimal deployment of all relevant management and services.