identity management
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Multiple industry sources confirmed that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) will not to take part in the pilot test that was expected to begin in 2017. That decision comes as GSA’s 18F awards Equifax a contract for identity proofing and fraud detection.
January 09, 2017 -
Are fingerprints better than passwords for securing government systems? That's what the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is trying to determine.
January 03, 2017 -
The General Services Administration and the Homeland Security Department awarded CGI Federal a task order for the Credentials and Authentication Management (CRED) under phase 2 of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program.
November 14, 2016 InfoZen President and CEO Raj Ananthanpillai and Susan Sparks, director of Solutions Engineering, join host John Gilroy to discuss DevOps, identity management, and software development. October 25, 2016
October 24, 2016-
The General Services Administration’s 18F organization is reviewing bids of a solicitation to provide identity proofing and fraud detection for its Login.gov portal. But RFQ already is raising some concerns about the initiative.
October 17, 2016 -
Experts say the Office of Management and Budget’s update to the circular will greatly reduce agency pushback against using smart identity cards and other identity authentication and verification technologies.
August 15, 2016 More than 20 years after publication of the dog-on-the-Internet cartoon, identity verification and authentication still present major challenges to large organizations, including federal agencies.
July 06, 2016-
DoD CIO Terry Halvorsen is trying to create a dialogue around how to move off the Common Access Card. But experts say without money or an official program, not much can happen beyond plans and concepts in the short term.
June 20, 2016 -
DoD Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said he plans to phase out the secure identity card over the next two years and replace it with better multi-factor authentication.
June 15, 2016 -
Federal News Radio obtained a previously unreleased memo from federal CIO Tony Scott detailing 18 milestones over the next six months to make the Login.gov platform a reality.
June 13, 2016 -
GSA's 18F organization is taking a fourth bite at the identity management apple by developing a new platform called Login.gov despite 15 years of struggle to come up with a way for citizens, businesses and others to securely interact with agencies online.
May 23, 2016 -
The department's Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) now has the ability to give access to users based on their job functions and attributes, not merely the person's name or employee number. Donna Roy, executive director of the Information Sharing Environment Office at DHS, said that capability is helping the department build trusted identity exchanges.
May 10, 2016 -
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Kshemendra Paul, the program manager of the Information Sharing Environment, said the organization’s annual report to Congress demonstrates a maturing and sustainable set of frameworks and policies.
November 12, 2015 -
Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote to the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, the Pentagon's Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the Interior Department's National Business Center and the General Service Administration's National Payroll Branch asking for details on their reporting of wage and tax statements in an effort to ensure tax refunds are going to the right people.
August 27, 2015