A staggering amount of sensitive information, from personnel reviews to contracts and medical records, traverses the federal government’s computer network. Integral to this information-sharing process ...

The Common Access Card (CAC) has been the backbone of identity verification and secure access for U.S. federal systems for over two decades. Introduced by ...

They removed focus from the container that holds the credential and put focus on the credential itself. That's very helpful ...

BALTIMORE – Defense agencies could see a slew of new capabilities designed to ease identity and access management this year, according to defense IT officials. Chief among them is an expansion of ...

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 ...

The Air Force is looking for innovative ways to secure smartphones and tablets, under a four-year, $24 million program to make authentication, data transmission, storage and other functions on mobile ...

Certificate-based authentication is a cryptographic technique that allows one computer to securely identify itself to another across a network connection, using a document called a public-key ...