Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., have introduced legislation that would allow the U.S. Postal Service to provide identity verification and related services to the commercial sector to combat identity
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Jeremy Grant, former director for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, said that the initiative continues to move toward the release of an identity ecosystem framework for online transactions, FierceGovernmentIT reported Monday. He
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Jeremy Grant, senior executive adviser for identity management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will step down from his role at the agency in April, ZDNet reported Thursday. John Fontana writes
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The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is working to develop new security methods with the goal of replacing the password by 2020, FedScoop reported Wednesday. Jeremy Grant, senior executive adviser for
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The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is set to kick off a $2.6 million identity-based authentication program for healthcare system users to access their electronic health records, FCW reported Thursday.
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A steering committee tasked with overseeing the administration’s e-commerce identity-management plan — known as the identity ecosystem — could be up and running by the end of the year, FierceGovernmentIT reports. Jeremy
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The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, a public-private partnership on identity management solutions to bolster e-commerce, was officially launched last week. In a conference call with reporters, White House Director
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As the National Institute for Standards and Technology finalizes plans for a national strategy for more secure online identity authentication, the leaders of the Commerce Department’s technology shop said the new cyber
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When Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announced the government’s new plan for large-scale identity management — a secure “identity ecosystem†— for online transactions, they promised
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