HSPD-12

  • Only 29 percent of more than 4 million federal employees and contractors have secure identification cards. The goal of issuing Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 cards to every employee and vendor who needs access fell short…

    October 31, 2008
  • All federal employees and contractors will soon need to use Employee Identity Verification Cards. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has now released updated technical specifications for the cards. Hildy Ferraiolo, a computer scientist for NIST, discusses what the update means for federal agencies.

    October 23, 2008