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National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace - Enhancing Online Choice, Efficiency, Security, and Privacy: April 2011 (Paperback)
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National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace - Enhancing Online Choice, Efficiency, Security, and Privacy: April 2011 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R477
Discovery Miles 4 770
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A secure cyberspace is critical to our prosperity. We use the
Internet and other online environments to increase our
productivity, as a platform for innovation, and as a venue in which
to create new businesses. "Our digital infrastructure, therefore,
is a strategic national asset, and protecting it-while safeguarding
privacy and civil liberties-is a national security priority" and an
economic necessity. By addressing threats in this environment, we
will help individuals protect themselves in cyberspace and enable
both the private sector and government to offer more services
online. As a Nation, we are addressing many of the technical and
policy shortcomings that have led to insecurity in cyberspace.
Among these shortcomings is the online authentication of people and
devices: the President's Cyberspace Policy Review established
trusted identities as a cornerstone of improved cybersecurity. In
the current online environment, individuals are asked to maintain
dozens of different usernames and passwords, one for each website
with which they interact. The complexity of this approach is a
burden to individuals, and it encourages behavior-like the reuse of
passwords-that makes online fraud and identity theft easier. At the
same time, online businesses are faced with ever-increasing costs
for managing customer accounts, the consequences of online fraud,
and the loss of business that results from individuals'
unwillingness to create yet another account. Moreover, both
businesses and governments are unable to offer many services
online, because they cannot effectively identify the individuals
with whom they interact. Spoofed websites, stolen passwords, and
compromised accounts are all symptoms of inadequate authentication
mechanisms. Just as there is a need for methods to reliably
authenticate individuals, there are many Internet transactions for
which identification and authentication is not needed, or the
information needed is limited. It is vital to maintain the capacity
for anonymity and pseudonymity in Internet transactions in order to
enhance individuals' privacy and otherwise support civil liberties.
Nonetheless, individuals and businesses need to be able to check
each other's identity for certain types of sensitive transactions,
such as online banking or accessing electronic health records. The
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC or
Strategy) charts a course for the public and private sectors to
collaborate to raise the level of trust associated with the
identities of individuals, organizations, networks, services, and
devices involved in online transactions. The Strategy's vision is:
Individuals and organizations utilize secure, efficient,
easy-to-use, and interoperable identity solutions to access online
services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice, and
innovation. The realization of this vision is the user-centric
"Identity Ecosystem" described in this Strategy. It is an online
environment where individuals and organizations will be able to
trust each other because they follow agreed upon standards to
obtain and authenticate their digital identities-and the digital
identities of devices. The Identity Ecosystem is designed to
securely support transactions that range from anonymous to
fully-authenticated and from low- to high-value. The Identity
Ecosystem, as envisioned here, will increase the following: Privacy
protections; Convenience; Efficiency; Ease-of-use; Security;
Confidence; Innovation; Choice.
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