That password you use? Even if it includes uppercase and lowercase letters, special characters and numbers, it's probably obsolete under new guidance for federal system authentication. In four ...

There are seven key factors that determine whether agencies’ derived PIV programs succeed. Nearly 20 years after the government established the standard for Personal Identity Verification of Federal ...

NIST has released the Public Draft of NIST SP 800-63-3, now called Digital Identity Guidelines, for public comment. Over the summer, the ‘public preview phase’ resulted in hundreds of comments, many ...

The recent wave of highly public cyberattacks has cast a spotlight on last month’s White House executive order on cybersecurity, and the need for agencies to modernize their cybersecurity and ...

GSA will require agencies to adopt one of four assurance levels for electronic authorization for all e-government projects and major IT systems that conduct transactions by Oct. 1.<br> The General ...

No matter how the November elections turn out, Cabinet changes and other reorganizations are inevitable. I just hope the Federal E-Authentication Initiative doesn’t get lost in the shuffle.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Queralt, Inc., a New Haven, Connecticut-based cybersecurity research and development company, is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and ...

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 ...

Seven years ago this month, the Obama Administration published the “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)”. NSTIC called for an Identity Ecosystem, “an online environment ...

Stricter identity checks are coming to two of the most sensitive corners of the U.S. digital ecosystem: financial regulation and federal healthcare.

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Multifactor authentication (MFA) is now ...

When the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council established its two-factor authentication guidelines in October 2005, it gave the industry until the end of 2006 to conform. Two banks at ...