Companies want to be your identity service providers and see the Social Security Administration as a test case for making verification more consistent and interoperable.
Additionally, the agency failed to protect critical information technology assets found to be vulnerable two years ago, which could lead to intellectual property theft.
The Trump administration is revising how agencies should conduct identity proofing, establish digital identities and adopt processes for authentication and access control.
Several new development and pilot projects funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology are set to begin this summer that, if successful, may lay the…