Identity Management Requires Card Smarts
Brian Robinson writes for FCW.com about how the US government's push to define the standards for the common access control cards’ functions, interface technologies and biometric identification data addresses only part of the problem faced by federal agencies - as the requirements and standards for the other aspects of identity management systems are not well defined.
Because an IDMS must support many tasks and adapt to many environments, a specific description is nearly impossible to devise. Agencies must resolve this issue, among others, as they try to meet the October deadline for issuing smart cards to employees.An IDMS “is more of a concept than any particular thing,” said David Temoshok, director of identity policy and management at the General Services Administration. “There are no standards you can set for [an] IDMS. There is no single approach to implementing one.”
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