Catalyst: Government Adoption of Federated Identity

This is drawn from David Temoshok's Talk. He is the Director of Identity Policy and Management GSA Office of Government Policy

Homeland security directive 12
"Policy for Common Identification Standard For Federal Employees and Contractors" - August 2004

HSPD 12 Requirements

1. Secure and reliable forms of personal identification that are:

Based on sound criteria to verify an individual employee’s identity
Strongly resistant to fraud, tampering, counterfeiting, and terrorist exploitation
Rapidly verified electronically
Issued only by providers whose reliability has been established by an official accreditation process

2. Applicable to all government organizations and contractors except National Security Systems
3. Used for access to federally-controlled facilities and logical access to federally-controlled information systems
4. Flexible in selecting appropriate security level – includes graduated criteria from least secure to most secure
5. Implemented in a manner that protects citizens’ privacy

Expanding Electronic Government

Needing Common Authentication Services for