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Build Trust and Verify: New funding opportunity to assess our state pilots!

March 10, 2017

Trusted Identities Group

Last year we issued five grants so state and local jurisdictions could use digital identity technologies to improve delivery of services. Now, we want to evaluate how well those pilots have done: we

From public preview to public draft: SP 800-63 is open for comment!

January 30, 2017

Paul Grassi

Last summer’s efforts on draft SP 800-63-3: Digital Identity Guidelines paved the way for a lot of positive changes – thanks to all who provided feedback. Today we are excited to announce the next

Making Privacy Concrete (Three Words Not Usually Found Together)

January 4, 2017

Sean Brooks, Mike Garcia, Naomi Lefkovitz, Suzanne Lightman and Ellen Nadeau

Most in the IT space won’t know this, but NIST has one of the world’s best concrete engineering programs. Maybe we just have concrete on the mind since a couple of us in the office are doing house

2016 Year in Review: (TIG-ing stock of) Innovation in the Identity Ecosystem

December 30, 2016

Mike Garcia

When you think about 2016, the first thing that comes to mind is innovation in the identity ecosystem. That can’t just be us, right? While there has been a host of high-profile bad things that

SOFA Talk: Strength of Function for Authenticators Framework Now Open for Comment!

October 18, 2016

Elaine Newton

Back in January, NIST's Applied Cybersecurity Division hosted the “Applying Measurement Science in the Identity Ecosystem” workshop. Among the knotty issues under consideration, 220+ participants