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Cyber coordinator Schmidt says the administration will issue a draft national strategy for secure online transactions by Friday. The goal is to make identity management easy to use, secure and interoperable to conduct business with the government and the private sector. Schmidt says transactions are key to everything the White House wants to do.
The military is performing a proof of concept in Utah by putting transit benefits on employees\' Common Access Cards. USDA is implementing technology to require the use of HSPD-12 cards to log onto applications.
Phase 1 has already begun in expanding telework in the federal government.
OMB will issue a new memo on HSPD-12 in the coming weeks. Agencies are feeling more pressure to meet the secure identity card requirements. Administration is also closer to finalizing new strategy for securing online transactions.
More than 3.3 million agency employees now have secure ID cards. The CIO Council also releases new roadmap and implementation guidance for identity and access management. The guidance is intended to bring several governmentwide efforts together under one initiative.
FederalNewsRadio has told been tracking identity management — and most of us have heard of HSPD-12 cards. In many ways, identity management is entering a new phase — less focused on getting cards out to…
Aired Wednesday, July 15th at 2:05pm With the recent decision by the Federal government to move to a Cloud Computing environment, the role of verifying the identity of an authorized user as well as defining their rights once inside the cloud presents a series of opportunities as well as challenges.
New guidance provides advice to ensure non-federally issued identity cards can work with federal HSPD-12 cards and systems.
CIO Council offers advice on improving agency input on IT security
Four agencies to provide IT security certification and accreditation services
Four agencies to provide IT security certification and accreditation services
OMB says those who missed it must have corrective plans
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…
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.