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Getting Down to the Nitty Gritty: Perspectives on the IDESG Boston Plenary

We were thrilled to see more than 150 in-person and remote participants take time out of their summers to attend the fifth Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) plenary at the MIT Media Lab

Questions…and buzz surrounding draft NIST Special Publication 800-63-3

Here’s the backstory: You may have noticed that we've been getting a wee bit of attention on the proposed deprecation of SMS as an out-of-band second authentication factor in section 5.1.3.2 of draft

My heart bleeds for better identity solutions, my brain is excited by the progress

Big Pilots Drive the Big Picture: Building an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

No one ever claimed that implementing the NSTIC would be easy or that any one organization--private or public – could do it alone. This is why President Obama referred to the envisioned end state as

A new look at levels of assurance

Spring is a great time for change, and here at the NSTIC NPO, we like to think we’re always ready for change. When we catch wind of a change in the world of online identity, we like to prepare early.