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IAM Proves You Are Who You Say You Are

August 1, 2017
By Don Maclean

Cybersecurity is a human problem. Bad people use good technology for the worst purposes. Good people sometimes simply make mistakes or take inappropriate shortcuts. In the unfolding, complex cyber ecosystem, nowhere does human meet machine more directly than with identity and access management, or IAM.

Yet this direct connection is fraught with risk. Everyone must log in, but no one wants a lengthy process. Consequently, the more that IAM is automated, the more that people—who pose the weakest link in the cyber realm—are removed from the equation. Herein lies the problem: The easier processes become for users, the more complicated processes become for systems themselves.

Cracking the Code on Identity Management

August 1, 2017
By Sandra Jontz
A U.S. airman with the 81st Force Support Squadron resets her common access card (CAC) personal identification number. U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue

The Defense Information Systems Agency is dipping its toes into the huge pool of options for identity security to generate new approaches that go well beyond usernames and passwords. Hoping to roll out some solutions before the end of the fiscal year, the agency is weighing multifactor authentication, derived credentials and technologies to support mobile devices and rid its ranks of the common access card.

Takai Stresses Need for Identity Management, Improved Efficiency

May 9, 2012
By Rita Boland

The U.S. Defense Department must move to a single identity management system, the department's chief information officer said today at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Mission Partner Conference. Teri Takai stated that enterprise email is a driver of that system but acknowledged that the bigger concern is the identity management rather than whether all the military services embrace the email migration. Despite arguments among members of a military chief information officer panel earlier in the day, Takai said she is glad the discussion came up because people need to understand that finding the right solution for identity management is difficult.

Booz Allen Hamilton Awarded Nearly $24 Million for Biometrics Technologies

September 13, 2010
By George Seffers

Booz Allen Hamilton, Incorporated, Herndon, Virginia, was awarded a nearly $24 million contract for biometrics, identity management, and homeland security technologies research and analysis for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic. 55th Contracting Squadran, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is the contracting activity.

The Seven-Year Itch

February 22, 2010
 

No, I'm not talking about the classic Marilyn Monroe film; I'm talking about AFCEA's Homeland Security Conference, going on this Wednesday and Thursday. The theme is "DHS: The 7-Year Itch-Renewing the Commitment." The event will cover such topics as cybersecurity, securing social media, transparency, identity management, information and intelligence sharing, and more. Speakers include Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and W. Ralph Basham.

White House Cyber Policy Focuses on Internal Consolidation, External Engagement

August 21, 2013
By Henry Kenyon

As a part of its ongoing efforts to protect critical national infrastructure, the Obama administration has been actively working on making government computer networks more robust and resistant to cyber attack. To do this, the White House has looked internally at federal agencies to put into place new metrics and policies to improve their security stance and externally, reaching out to foreign governments to set up international accords on cyber espionage, a top administration official said.
 

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