Kantara floats voluntary-compulsory authentication for social saftey nets

NSTIC policy experiment applied to government dependents

BTC --  The Kantara Initiative paved a name and a place for themselves by bringing bank card infrastructure to US food stamp programs and general relief banking options.  Kantara's work centers on social safety nets and frameworks of anyone completely dependent on the US government for food, shelter or money.  The user population for their services has dramatically increased due to Iraq and Afghanistan war homecomings and the 2008 economic crash.  Slow job growth and unemployment has pushed many Americans into US social service systems in larger numbers.

NSTIC, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, is working with Kantara to bring an authentication credential system online for US social service recipients.  Kantara's involvement would make transactional monitoring between recipients and guarantors more convenient.  FICAM, the Federal Identity, Credential and Access Management, moved ahead in 2009 is a model for Kantara going forward, cites a recent report at Secure ID News.

"In the case of credentials, that accreditation comes from the Kantara Initiative. Kantara’s Identity Assurance Accreditation and Approval Program aims to grow identity credential services based on the four levels of assurance that are measured and validated in the U.S. Federal Identity Credential and Access Management (ICAM) trust framework." 

NIST awards AAMVA $1.6 million for federated biometric pilots

c/o Digital ID News

The National Institute for Standards and Technology released the five pilot award winners for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The five were selected from a pool of 27 finalists and 186 organizations that originally submitted proposals. 

The grantees of the pilot awards are: 

The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA): $1,621,803 AAMVA will lead a group of private industry and government partners to implement and pilot the Cross Sector Digital Identity Initiative (CSDII). The goal of this initiative is to produce a secure online identity ecosystem that will lead to safer transactions by enhancing privacy and reducing the risk of fraud in online commerce. In addition to AAMVA, the CSDII pilot participants include the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Biometric Signature ID, CA Technologies, Microsoft and AT&T.

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Secure ID News - Driver licenses and Internet IDs

BTC - AAMVA's Geoff Slagle, tells Secure ID news the highway safety group has worked with DHS c/o the Real ID Act for the last 7 years. They are set to move federal and bimetric ID requirements online in the CSDII - Cross Sector Digital Identity Initiaitive as an awardee for an NTSIC pilot.

c/o Secure ID News

"In some media reports the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace has been referred to as an Internet driver license so the fact that an association that represents issuers of those documents may seem like a no brainer. Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan spoke with Geoff Slagle, director of identity management at the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators about the pilot. AAMVA will lead a group of private industry and government partners to implement and pilot the Cross Sector Digital Identity Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to produce a secure online identity ecosystem that will lead to safer transactions by enhancing privacy and reducing the risk of fraud in online commerce."

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