The health care market is riddled with identity management and authentication challenges but smart cards may be poised to change that. Health care organizations are faced with a myriad of obstacles when it comes to security, identity verification and authentication of staff, says Michael Magrath, di...
The U.S. agency that brought you the Internet is now angling to develop new biometric techniques for authentication that will tap computer users as human secrets....
Military information securityexperts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., are asking for industry’s help in developing ways to blendbiometrics into U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) military cyber security systems without installing new hardware. The inten...
The federal government is looking to move beyond passwords to more effectively manage security and authentication. There are a number of efforts to provide better security than traditional passwords, said Jeremy Grant, senior executive adviser and leader of the Commerce Department’s National Prog...
via Government Technology Every year in the United States, more than 40 million people move and approximately 3 million women change their last name. More than 13 million Americans share one of 10 common surnames, tens of millions of consumers use nicknames or initials, and 57 million males have one...
via Gov Info Security The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a government-private sector initiative, could enhance efficiency, security and privacy in all the transactions done online every day, says NIST’s Jeremy Grant, senior executive adviser of identity managem...
via Uber Review Worried about remembering your passwords? If you are a US citizen you need not worry much longer because the US Commerce Department has just disclosed plans for a national cyber-identity system that will let you use a single secure password and identity for all of your digital transa...
via Stars and Stripes Some Pentagon computer networks might have been laid open to intruders as a result of a recent electronic break-in at one of the nation’s most prominent cybersecurity firms. Earlier this month, RSA announced that an unknown attacker had launched an “extremely sophis...