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As a deadline for implementation draws near, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is working with agencies to ensure their legacy systems are keeping up with the latest standards in identity management and authentication solutions.
The expansion of biometrics is all about trade offs between three categories: what you know, what you have and what you are.
The Defense Department is experimenting with biometrics to control physical access, while improving the technology's accuracy and increasing mobility.
The Defense Department has several tests planned for 2018 for different biometric modalities.
TSA is testing biometric devices like fingerprint scanners and facial recognition, as well as 3D imaging and automation to improve security, reduce wait at airport checkpoints.
The Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) policy is making the move to the cloud more complex than some say it needs to be. It was one of three hot topics at the ACT-IAC Management of Change conference last week.
Stephen Cox, chief security architect for SecureAuth, describes why passwords and even two-factor authentication are no longer safe in this cyber environment.
Are fingerprints better than passwords for securing government systems? That's what the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is trying to determine.
Keylogic Systems CEO Jon Hammock and Kevin Reid, vice president for National Security, join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how their company can help federal IT professionals with their systems integration challenges. January 3, 2016
While some agencies have jumped into the big data game without a clear plan for using it, others have been using data to improve their services for a while. One agency has even reached the point where it's discovered that too much data can be just as much a hindrance as a help.
The Air Force and FBI are adapting their approaches to enterprise IT to become more agile.
While the FBI remains in the planning stages of its new headquarters construction project, the agency's new biometrics technology center has been working on projects to build on the breakthrough successes it's had with fingerprint technology.
The Homeland Security Department can't get this one over the line. How to collect biometric IDs from foreigners leaving the United States. DHS captures it when they arrive, but that's it. The result? It's impossible to tell who is overstaying their visit. This situation has concerned Congress for years. Rebecca Gambler, director of homeland security and justice issues at the Government Accountability Office, shares the details of a new GAO report on Federal Drive with Tom Temin
Stephen Morris, the assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, said the five-year effort to build the Next Generation Identification system (NGI) has delivered on its promises and then some, giving examiners faster and more accurate processing of fingerprints and other biometrics.