Smart Card Alliance Government Conference Day One: Experts Talk NSTIC and …

WASHINGTON, DC, Nov 03, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX –
10TH ANNUAL SMART CARD ALLIANCE GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE — Passwords
are broken, and key logging, man-in-the-middle, phishing, and malware
attacks have made the industry’s reliance on passwords the soft
underbelly of the Internet, according to Jeremy Grant, senior
executive adviser for identity management at NIST and the manager
responsible for creating the national program office for the National
Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC.

Addressing attendees at the 10th Annual Smart Card Alliance
Government Conference, taking place this week through November 4th at
the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, DC, Grant
cited two examples of how smart card technology can help to solve the
problems the NSTIC intends to address. Several years ago, network
intrusions at the Department of Defense (DoD fell 46 percent almost
overnight when the agency mandated that passwords could no longer be
used and smart cards were required to access all systems. More
recently, the U.S. Army cut classified leaks by 85 percent using a
software program tied to their smart card-based Common Access Card
(CAC.

Passwords are the most common vector for attacks that lead to data
breaches, with four out of seven attacks linked to weak passwords,
according to a Secret Service study conducted by Verizon that Grant
cited.

«The online industry is stunned by the lack of security,» said Don
Thibeau, executive director of the OpenID foundation and chairman of
the board of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX. «Well over 100,000
identities are stolen every day in America.»

A panel of identity security experts came up with a list of ways to
evaluate whether the NSTIC is successful. Gartner’s Ian Glazer
suggested that having a set of technical norms and established trust
patterns that the industry can follow would be a good metric of
success.

Mike Wyatt of Deloitte suggested that getting industries aligned
around a standard approach would be a measure of success, citing
SAFE-BioPharma as an example.

Joni Brennan of the Kantara Initiative said that the NSTIC would be
effective when identity becomes embedded in people’s lives and as
normal as using a driver’s license or passport.

Aaron Brauer-Rieke of the Center for Democracy and Technology set a
more practical measure for the program’s early stages, stating, «If
someone would get excited and do something — that would be a
success. »

Thibeau sees the NSTIC as a forcing function that will get security
specialists in the smart card community talking to the online
community. «There’s no question the Alliance has a seat at the table.
The question is where is the table and who else is there?» he said.

Other highlights from the conference’s first day:

          --  The Commonwealths of Virginia and Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia             region are issuing 68,000 Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable             (PIV-I credentials to first responders.           --  FEMA's National Incident Management System (NIMS document has been a             big factor for getting state and local governments to move forward             because it established the use of PIV-I credentials as a best practice             for first responders, according to Bobby Kagel, the deputy director             for emergency management in Chester County, Pennsylvania.           --  In discussing the use of PIV-I smart cards for online security,             Northrop Grumman's Ken Lehman said, "When you look at the threats that             are out there, this is the silver bullet." 

«This marks the 10th year of the Smart Card Alliance Government
conference and our collaboration with government identity security
and policy leaders,» said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the
Smart Card Alliance. «Through the breadth of government and
commercial individuals who actively participate in our organization,
we have maintained a consistent and prominent role in education and
awareness around government identity programs.»

For more news from the 10th Annual Smart Card Alliance Government
Conference, follow the Smart Card Alliance on Twitter
@SmartCardOrgUSA, hashtag #scagovconf, and Facebook at Smart Card
Alliance.

About the Smart Card Alliance
The Smart Card Alliance is a
not-for-profit, multi-industry association working to stimulate the
understanding, adoption, use and widespread application of smart card
technology.

Through specific projects such as education programs, market
research, advocacy, industry relations and open forums, the Alliance
keeps its members connected to industry leaders and innovative
thought. The Alliance is the single industry voice for smart cards,
leading industry discussion on the impact and value of smart cards in
the U.S. and Latin America. For more information please visit

http://www.smartcardalliance.org .

          Contact:         Deb Montner         Montner  Associates         203-226-9290         dmontner@montner.com 

SOURCE: The Smart Card Alliance

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