The Smart Card Alliance has announced its endorsement of the Obama Administration’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), developed under the President’s Cyberspace Policy Review by the National Security Staff and an interagency writing team. The NSTIC initiative addresses the problems of Web-based identity management.

The Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program has awarded its first accreditation to eValid8. The company is an IT auditing firm in the field of identity management, IT auditing, privacy impact assessment, and regulatory compliance.

Government issued ID cards aren’t what they use to be. In the last 10-years the documents have changed from simple piece of laminated plastic to high-tech IDs with multiple security features. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin spoke with Robert DeVincenzi, president and CEO at LaserCard, about the company’s role in changing IDs and a Frost & Sullivan report that analyzes some of the progress.

In another of a series of podcasts investigating identity standards, Kevin Gillick, executive director at GlobalPlatform, talks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the standards landscape and the role it plays.