Report includes BYOD requirement, new solutions for identity
The White House Office of Management and Budget released a digital government strategy report, “Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People.”
President Obama issued the directive to make services accessible from mobile devices and charged OMB with developing a strategy to build a 21st Century Digital Government that delivers better digital services. The report also paves the way for federal employees to bring your own device and calls for new solutions for identity, authentication and credential management.
The report calls for the creation of a Digital Services Advisory Group out of OMB that will include members from the Federal CIO Council, Federal Web Managers Council, and other agencies.


AU10TIX, a subsidiary of ICTS International N.V., and the UK subsidiary of 3M have entered into an agreement to provide a ID document capture and authentication hardware and software products that will be able to cross-reference and manage records across a wide range of national and international identification cards.
HID Global announced that the company’s pivCLASS readers and authentication systems have achieved compliance with the U.S. General Services Administration Evaluation Program for certifying that products meet FIPS 201 federal identity specifications.
Large, high profile events, like the London 2012 Olympics, need to be secure while also enabling individuals to get where they need to go without too much of a security hassle. Mark Joynes, director of Product Management at Entrust, explains how security and identity plans for these events are created. He also discusses Entrust’s involvement with the Interpol employee credentials that is used for crossing borders as well as physical and logical access to Interpol facilities and networks.![[end]](/resources/bullet/secureidnews-4.gif)
Massachusetts-based Aware Inc. has announced it’s won three contracts to provide biometrics software and services for three large-scale border management systems in Europe, the Middle East and North America. 





