[Fed-Talk] DISA to test mobile ID, replacement for CAC
[Fed-Talk] DISA to test mobile ID, replacement for CAC
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] DISA to test mobile ID, replacement for CAC
- From: "Dan O'Donnell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:17:01 -0700
DISA has apparently announced the start of testing on a replacement or supplement for CAC.
http://www.c4isrnet.com/article/M5/20140409/C4ISRNET07/304090032/DISA-tests-move-away-from-CAC
One month ago, the National Institute for Standards and Technology released draft guidance for government agencies looking to institute derived credentials, which store security certificates directly on a device instead of through a separate piece – in the case of DoD, the CAC. NIST’s guidelines for derived credentials outline the use of secure, standards-based public-key infrastructure (PKI) credentials that use digital tokens instead of a physical card reader.
“We’ve gotten huge benefits from the PKI infrastructure in DoD and the CAC has carried us a long way; we're now doing a similar thing on SIPRNet,” said Mark Orndorff, DISA chief information assurance executive. “So our main effort in mobility is to bring that technology into the mobile platform, and the way I see it, the key is the derived credential and using the capabilities that the leading-level device vendors have built in to their platforms so we can bring our certificate into their devices.” |
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