TSCP was born out of a challenge: the need to securely collaborate with suppliers, teammates and government customers. Since its inception the organization has created rules for issuing and using credentials. The group was awarded one of the latest pilots for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The TSCP pilot will deploy trusted […]

A patient with a pacemaker is on a business trip when he starts feeling odd. It’s not an emergency but he wants to see a doctor. Having his physician send all the appropriate medical data to a local physician, however, can be daunting. Resilient is trying to fix this problem setting up a network that […]

PRIVO – Privacy Vaults Online Inc. – was established to enable web sites to comply with COPPA – the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Denise Tayloe, co-founder and CEO of PRIVO, spoke with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the pilot award for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Tayloe says the company will […]

A group within the American Association of Airport Executives was the first to start using technology associated with a National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace pilot. The pilot rolled out in March as a small group from the industry association began using the multi-factor technology to access a specific portal, says Cathy Tilton, vice […]

SecureKey has revealed enhancements to the company’s cloud-based briidge.net Connect multi-factor authentication service. The latest version of briidge.net Connect incorporates a new mobile Software Developers Kit that will enable developers to build more multi-factor authentication capabilities into both iOS and Android mobile apps. The Connect SDK enables developers to embed utilities like QuickCode secure PIN […]

Troop ID is an identity service provided by ID.me, a group that’s created digital ID cards for members of the military community, first responders, students and other groups where individuals can tie attributes about themselves and share that in a privacy enhancing and user centric way across the web, says Matthew Thompson, cofounder and COO […]

Figuring out attributes in the identity ecosystem isn’t as easy as one would think. “What’s out there in terms of attributes is wily and woolly and we’re not sure what market forces will move us to standardization,” says Kenneth Klingenstein, director of Middleware for Internet2. Internet2 is zeroing in on a handful of areas in […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded more than $2 million in grants to the states of Pennsylvania and Michigan to test online identity technologies to help improve access to government services and the delivery of federal assistance programs, and to reduce fraud. The pilot projects support the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in […]

An attribute exchange network is often discussed but rarely seen, kind of like Bigfoot. But unlike the legendary creature, the attribute exchange network is being brought to life by Criterion Systems and its pilot for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Creating the network to communicate just the required, relevant identity information to […]

At a high level, a trust framework is a guarantee. For example, payment cards use a trust framework to guarantee payment when a charge is authorized. In the identity ecosystem a trust framework would guarantee that an ID provider has taken steps to assure that an online identity is connected to the correct individual. The […]