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 ...

Strong authentication remains a cybersecurity priority under the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) cross-agency priority goals that were announced in the 2015 federal budget. In its 2015 budget ...

A new report warns contracting officers at the Veterans Health Administration are failing to comply with agency and federal guidelines ensuring contractor personnel return personal identity ...

MINNEAPOLIS & PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Entrust, a leading provider of trusted identities, payments and data protection, today announced a partnership with Yubico, the leading provider of ...

Specifications for cryptographic algorithms and keys for use on smart government ID cards are being updated to better align them with Federal Information Processing Standards and to extend the use of ...

Nearly 20 years after the government established the standard for Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors (PIV), the federal mission has outgrown the physical card. The ...

For decades, PIV and CAC cards have been the primary tools for agencies and contractors to verify the identity of employees and contractors. The COVID-19 outbreak could change that. Identity ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed two demonstration software packages that show how Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards can be used with Windows and Linux ...

NIST has increased the number of acceptable types of credentials that federal agencies can permit as official digital identity, part of the latest update to Federal Information Processing Standard ...

The Personal Identity Verification cards used by every federal worker and contractor are being revised to address the technology advances that have occurred since the card standards were published in ...