NIST proposes specs for PIV card readers
The National Institute for Standards and Technology has released for comment a draft of interoperability requirements for PIV card readers.
An upgrade to the plumbing
HHS inspector general's office uses optimization tool to get its WAN up to speed.
The future of authentication
If you want to know where authentication technology is going, take a look at what vendors are offering to the health care and financial-services industries.
Building the PIV team
HSPD-12 touches more than just IT.
Interoperability is an access problem
Any access-control system probably will have to work with a wide variety of applications, some of them off-the-shelf, some homegrown, some up-to-date and some legacies.
Security in numbers
Government is a major driver in the use of multifactor authentication, both in its regulations for the health care and banking industries and in its own applications. When it comes to controlling network access, agencies find two factors are better than one.
Federal PKI bridge gets private peer
The Federal Bridge Certification Authority in May recognized an aerospace industry bridge for validating digital certificates, enabling secure communications between government agencies and contractors that issue their own certificates.
Cybereye | Could FISMA stem the flow of personal data?
Abe Kleinfield thinks the Federal Information Security Management Act could be a solution to the rash of security breaches that have exposed the personal data of millions of individuals in recent weeks.
What happens when the Net is attacked?
When a building collapses, you can see the devastation. When a network is brought to its knees, the effects are less obvious.
Status of OpenSSL FIPS certification shifts again
The National Institute of Standards and Technology apparently has backtracked on its revocation of OpenSSL certification under the Federal Information Processing Standard.
Open Source encryption module loses FIPS certification
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revoked certification of the open-source encryption tool OpenSSL under the Federal Information Processing Standard.
Cybersecurity still handled by a 'place holder'
A year since DHS floated the idea of an assistant secretary for cybersecurity, the position remains unfilled.
NIST revamps crypto requirements for PIV cards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has revised guidelines for the cryptographic elements on new smart government ID cards, which agencies are scheduled to begin issuing in October.
New center will focus on identity theft, fraud
The Center for Identity Management and Information Protection will be located in the Economic Crime Institute of Utica College in Utica, N.Y. Its goal is to replace current piecemeal research efforts and pull together resources from industry, educational institutions and law enforcement.
Cybereye | Dont panic yet, but think hard about RFID uses
RFID, as it is used now, promises far more benefits than problems. But maybe it is not too early to begin a debate on a technology that is becoming more widespread, versatile and powerful.
One size fits all?
When it comes to IT consolidation, agencies like Census have two masters: their customers, who have various needs and preferred technologies, and themselves, who must answer to higher powers over questions of return on investment, total cost of ownership and IT-mission alignment.
New research center will focus on identity fraud
Government, academic and private-sector officials have formed a partnership to help combat identity fraud.
Converged networks: You can't use what you can't find
Moving voice, video and graphical data over a single IP network offers advantages in economy and manipulation.
IP convergence: Traffic jam at the on ramp
Merging voice, video and audio into an IP network can be tricky when many partiesare involved.
Modern Relics
The National Institute of Standards and Technology hosted a workshop onlong-term knowledge retention, looking for answers to the questions of what digital data should be saved and how it should be saved.
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