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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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 …
Data encryption addresses four major areas: data in motion, data stored on user devices, data stored on servers and data that is currently being used. Today, most encryption efforts focus on data stored on servers because that is where the majority of big breaches take place. “There are lots of different challenges,” said Sol Cates, …
IT managers know the movies get it wrong. A teenager with a laptop cannot crack multiple layers of encryption.
