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 U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) addressed security vulnerabilities in its Federal “Cybersecurity Sprint,” stating that cybersecurity poses some of the most serious economic and security ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only two of the Office of Personnel Management’s 46 major IT applications are fully compliant with federal requirements for employees to use two-factor authentication to access the systems, a new ...

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 ...

One question that looks for an answer at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), starting a week from Monday, is whether the iPhone 3.0 software update will support PIV card authentication ...

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 ...

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 ...