Over the past year, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made major advances in improving and simplifying the future security requirements for government information technology (IT). They have identified new standards, strategies, and solutions that have reduced the FISMA requirements on the government organizations by over 50 percent and the risk to systems by much more. Thes...

Few doubt the critical importance of trusted identity management in our cyber-focused world. As a nation and as individuals, we conduct our business using Internet- and increasingly, Cloud-based, services that demand reliable identity protection and management. As a society, we bank, shop, file tax returns, manage portfolios, check health information, apply for licenses and permits, enroll in courses, book planes/trains/and automobiles—j...