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Can authentication deliver better citizen services?

When it comes to issuing credentials to employees, government agencies benefit from an additional authentication step that is not well appreciated: At some point in the hiring process, a trusted human resources manager or supervisor physically meets with new hires and verifies their identification documents. When providing online services, however, that personal touch is not […]

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Mobile devices: A better route to ID security

In the federal government, Common Access Cards and personal identity verification cards for employees and contractors incorporate biometrics and give agencies a better foundation for security and ID management than many private-sector organizations enjoy. But that wasn’t always the case. A few years ago, Kayvan Alikhani, senior director of technology at RSA Security, would have

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