Smart Card Alliance forms identity council

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM

As secure identities have become a critically important issue for citizens, governments and enterprises in the information age, the Smart Card Alliance has formed an Identity Council that will work to promote the need for better use of technologies, policies and usage solutions regarding human identity information.

To explain the Council's mission, the group has issued a free white paper entitled “The Top 10 Hot Identity Topics.” The paper discusses challenges associated with current identity systems.

“Within the identity protection and security industry, we face not only growing challenges related to protection of online consumer and business information, but also challenges related to making accurate, relevant information available to corporations, government and the public,” says Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Alliance.

Some of the primary objectives of the Identity Council are: maintaining an informed and active public voice that responds to any public concerns regarding identity technology; being an educational and informational resource for industry; and representing the smart card industry on appropriate methods of gathering, managing, protecting, and distributing secure identity information for use in government and commercial applications.

The Council will also conduct collaborative projects focusing on identity issues such as RFID and contactless smart card technology differentiation, secure credentialing, multi-factor authentication, driver's licenses, travel identity, federated identity solutions, and standards and interoperability.

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