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  • UK: Public login plan under fire

    Procurement processes for Whitehall online authentication criticised

    Government plans for a single authentication system for citizens accessing public services online may be derailed by procurement issues branded by one industry insider as ‘rank bad practice’.

    The GC Register component of the £27m Government Connects (GC) scheme will allow citizens to identify themselves once at login, and then be recognised by all public sector bodies that subscribe to the scheme.

  • US: Alabama: Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base: Registration starts for advanced ID cards

    Registration for the Defense Biometric Identification System has begun at Maxwell and Gunter, and everyone needing access to base is required to register by July.

    "(With DBIDS) guards will scan the ID of the accessing individual to check for authorized access," said Staff Sgt. Joshua Allen, 42nd Security Forces Squadron assistant noncommissioned officer in charge of pass and registration and site manager for DBIDS. "They will be able to check new digital entry authorization lists."

    Registration should take three to five minutes, he said. "It entails scanning the member's ID card and two sets of fingerprints."

  • US: Arizona county adds mobile biometric ID system

    The sheriff’s office in Pinal County, Arizona adopted a mobile biometric identification system to help identify suspects in any location, reports KPHO.

    The office will use the MORIS identification system that incorporates biometric readings of irises, fingerprints and facial recognition through a mobile device that connects to a smart phone. Deputies will use the system to identify suspects who have no identification and undocumented immigrants.

  • US: California DMV Online Identity Service More Popular Than Expected

    Some California drivers may cringe at the thought of going to a Department of Motor Vehicles field office to take care car or license issues. Now they can avoid that step with an on online tool at their disposal — the option to establish identities through the DMV website to access more Web-based services.

    Last fall, DMV set up an identity and access management system with its partner IBM to allow users to set up a user name and password on its website.

    Since then, more than 1 million users have created online identities. The rapid popularity is a surprise to the DMV, which didn’t anticipate the quick response.

  • US: E-Authentication Best Practices for Government

    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 of 10 first names. These realities pose complex challenges to the electronic authentication (e-authentication) process, which establishes confidence in user identities presented to an information system, for both the public and private sectors. The private sector spends more than $2 billion per year on fraud detection and prevention efforts, and government agencies must work to keep pace to ensure that their constituents and customers are protected against cyber-security threats.
  • US: Expanding E-Verify isn't easy fix for immigration problems

    A bill sponsored by Texas Rep. Lamar Smith and co-sponsored by Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz that would make the E-Verify system mandatory has made it through the judiciary committee. E-Verify is a Department of Homeland Security system that employers can use to authenticate an individual's legal work status. To many, applying information technology to what seems like a nice, tidy identity problem seems like a quick, easy fix. But, this is not a simple identity problem.

    A 2009 independent report prepared by Westat of Rockville, Md., for DHS shows that the system is 99.2 percent accurate. That sounds pretty good, if we're talking about shooting percentages or exam scores. But there are plenty of places where 99.2 percent isn't good enough. I like my bank to be much more accurate than that, for example.

  • US: How to protect online transactions with multi-factor authentication

    Organisations in the US are now affected by federal guidelines recommending multiple layers of security controls

    The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web-based financial transactions from rapidly evolving security threats.

    New federal guidelines in the US, which took effect last month, recommend multiple layers of security controls beyond the traditional username/password, particularly out-of-band authentication methods.

  • US: ID management: A matter of trust

    If the federal government could issue a standard digital identity card to members of the general public as it has for its employees, then fielding that critical tool for more secure and cost-effective e-government and e-commerce would be much simpler — and probably happen a lot faster, too.

    But deeply rooted opposition to a national identity card, magnified by concerns about the potential for easy government tracking and surveillance of individuals, rules out the use of government-issued digital IDs, at least for now.

  • US: New ID rules would threaten citizens' rights

    Sensible immigration reform will strengthen American society and economy. But it must also respect the rights of U.S. citizens and those aspiring to join them.

    Buried in the comprehensive immigration reform legislation before the Senate are obscure provisions that impose on Americans expansive national identification systems, tied to electronic verification schemes. Under the guise of "reform," these trample fundamental rights and freedoms.

    Requirements in Senate Bill 744 for mandatory worker IDs and electronic verification remove the right of citizens to take employment and "give" it back as a privilege only when proper proof is presented and the government agrees. Such systems are inimical to a free society and are costly to the economy and treasury.

  • US: New Secure Identity & Biometrics Association provides innovative security protection solutions

    The new Secure Identity & Biometrics Association (SIBA) has launched. The organization provides proactive education, policy refinement, and solutions to the complexities of balancing identity security and protection with national security, public safety, economic strength, privacy and innovation. Technologies covered include both biological and behavioral biometrics such as fingerprints, facial and iris recognition, voice identification, and other secure credentials. SIBA was created for vendors, research institutions, nonprofits, and individuals.

    Today these technologies make the world more secure and economically efficient. Benefits include securing borders, enabling individuals without documentation to be brought out of anonymity, catching dangerous criminals and terrorists, reconciling refugees and reuniting families, reducing identity theft, and giving medical patients increased privacy while reducing healthcare fraud.

  • US: New York: Saratoga Springs: Biometrics Shore Up Patient Data Security

    Saratoga Hospital uses biometric technology to better manage and track health providers’ access to patient data.

    To tighten privacy and security measures around its protected health information (PHI), Saratoga Hospital recently announced that it has turned to biometric technology provided by DigitalPersona Inc., to verify physicians' identity and better manage the way they access patients' medical records.

    Officials at Saratoga Hospital, which operates five remote care facilities with 171 hospital beds in Saratoga Springs, NY, said that because of the cumbersome login and logoff processes, the hospital had difficulty accurately tracking access to protected health information by its more than 1,700 doctors, nurses, and staff members under their old username and password authentication processes.

  • US: NIST embraces assertion-based remote e-authentication

    An updated special publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology on remote e-authentication includes more detail about identity assertions and permits protocols not included in the last version.

    The special publication, 800-63-1, is the official document agencies must look to when implementing e-authentication technology for use across open networks such as the Internet.

  • US: Personal Identity Verification Card specs to account for mobile, other new factors

    Technical specifications for the Personal Identity Verification Card for federal workers and contractors are being revised to reflect changes in the technical environment in which the smart cards are being used, and to incorporate changes requested by agencies and other stakeholders.

    The specifications are included in Federal Information Processing Standard 201, and NIST has released a second draft of proposed revisions for public comment.

  • US: Verified Facebook Status for States, Localities: Here's How to Get Yours

    Facebook verification is officially live for states, cities and counties -- now it's time to get verified.

    The coveted blue verified badge on Facebook: Celebrities get it. Sports teams get it. Even federal agencies get it. Now state and local governments can get it too.

    Last Friday, Jason Shueh reported on a pending code update at the social site that would extend the badge — commonly called the blue check mark (even though the check mark is actually white against a blue background) — to states and localities.

  • USA: 3 South Carolina Counties to Use ICE Biometric Program

    Recently, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in Colleton, Hampton and Jasper counties that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforcement’s custody for a crime. This capability is part of Secure Communities - ICE’s comprehensive strategy to improve and modernize the identification and removal of aliens convicted of a crime from the United States.

    Previously, biometrics - fingerprints - taken of individuals charged with a crime and booked into custody were checked for criminal history information against the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). Now, through enhanced information sharing between DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), biometrics submitted through the state to the FBI will be automatically checked against both the FBI criminal history records in IAFIS and the biometrics-based immigration records in DHS’s Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT).

  • USA: Access controlled

    The nuptials are set for Oct. 27, 2006. That's the day by which every agency in the U.S. government is supposed to be issuing smart cards that will marry physical access control and logical access control. The plan, mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12), is that all 5 million-plus federal employees and contractors eventually be given a common identification card that can be used anywhere and everywhere. At the front door of the federal building where the employee works. With single sign-on to computer systems. As part of three-factor authentication involving biometrics. On visits to headquarters or neighboring agencies.
  • USA: Agencies ramp up use of E-Authentication

    The General Services Administration’s E-Authentication initiative has overcome turbulent beginnings and is setting standards for electronic credential holders in both the public and private sectors.

    With the implementation of th E-Authentication guidance, agencies and vendors have a common way to assess risk and a standard set of business rules to validate digital certificates.

  • USA: Authentication, ID are in the cards

    RFID, biometrics are integral to many of DHS’ plans

    Robert Mocny, deputy program manager for the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program, has a simple vision for making the borders more secure.

    It doesn’t have to do with 12-foot fences, or unmanned aerial vehicles or anything fancy. It is a simple card combining two technologies that have been around for decades—biometrics and radio frequency identification.

  • USA: Biometric Devices Help New Jersey County Track Delivery of Homeless Services

    Bergen County, N.J., has dealt with one particular dilemma for years: The Department of Human Services (DHS) needs to estimate how many homeless individuals receive services, such as food, medicine and shelter. But many people served by the department don’t have accurate forms of identification, and without a precise tracking system, the DHS might have erroneously counted one person who visits the shelter 10 times, for example, as 10 different people visiting once.

    And when it comes time to properly fill out grant applications to receive funding support, accuracy counts for the DHS.

  • USA: Biometrics and one-time passwords gaining traction among consumers

    Improved technology, growing familiarity making alternative authentication more palatable to consumers

    A new report released by Javelin Research showed while consumers still strongly prefer knowledge-based authentication methods for online banking and other sensitive applications, alternative factors, such as biometrics and one-time-passwords, are currying favor.

    Based on a survey conducted across nearly 2,000 U.S.-based consumers, the 2010 Authentication Report showed for online banking, 64 percent of consumer perceived that challenge-response questions were effective, compared to 58 percent who believed biometrics to be effective and 42 percent who thought one-time passwords worked well.

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