Trusting the Team: Identity Protection and Management

Abstract

Information superiority is heavily dependent on establishing and maintaining a secure and interoperable infrastructure. At the heart of it all is identity protection and management. We must be able to trust the identity of information producers, service providers, and consumers. In pursuing these objectives, many goals over the past 15 years have been achieved, primarily through the efforts of three DoD initiatives: Common Access Card (CAC), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and biometrics. The CAC provides the standard identification card for authorized DoD users--the DoD credential enabling physical and logical access. The DoD has issued more than 11 million identity cards (more than 3.5 million are in current circulation). Use of the CAC and the PKI certificates on the token eliminates the need to use passwords when authenticating. This mitigates a major problem with protecting DoD networks from unauthorized intruders.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA544779

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Biometric Security
  • Biometrics
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Network Security
  • Engineering
  • Explosive Devices
  • Homeland Security
  • Identification
  • Identification Systems
  • Identities
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Exchange
  • Infrastructure
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Economics