Bryan Rosensteel is cybersecurity architect, public sector, at Cisco’s Duo Security. He has more than a decade of enterprise IT and security experience, specializing in zero-trust and data-centric ...

Many federal entities have already leveraged PIV cards as strong multi-factor authentication credentials for internal logical access. We also have seen additional mandates such as OMB Memorandum ...

The FIDO Alliance wants the U.S. government to leapfrog the obstacles to pervasive PKI authentication using FIDO and PIV. Agencies have deployed the PIV credentials extensively but still struggle to ...

The PIV Authentication System product category provides the capability to perform a cryptographic challenge/response with the PIV Authentication Key stored on a PIV Card and makes an authorization ...

Nearly 20 years after the government established the standard for Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors (PIV), the federal mission has outgrown the physical card. The ...

Specifications for cryptographic algorithms and keys for use on smart government ID cards are being updated to better align them with Federal Information Processing Standards and to extend the use of ...

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., -- June 9, 2016 -- The issuance and use of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials for access to secure government systems and buildings are on a hot streak, while ...

The new specifications could let employees keep their fingerprint data on the PIV card, among other functions. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is attempting to make the personal ...

In February 2011, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandated Federal Agencies to achieve a 95-percent utilization rate, of Personal Identification Validation (PIV) smartcards for ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...