States Will Get More Time for Secure ID Plan
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The Bush administration will announce today that states will have more than five additional years to comply with its controversial nationwide Real ID program, the second such delay in a year, people briefed on the plan said yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - A consortium of security vendors is trying to make it easier for emergency personnel to identify themselves at the scene of a disaster. The group, called Tiers of Trust, will help groups like local police and fire departments develop smart-card identification systems based on a federal ID standard calledÂ FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 201. The FIPS 201 standard defines how smart card identification credentials are to be used by federal employees, and an estimated 3 million local first responders must also comply with the standard in order to qualify for federal grant money, the Tiers of Trust Consortium said. But complying with the FIPS 201 standard can be expensive, and the consortium thinks that it can help local departments cut costs by offering them a helping hand with the process. "What we're trying to do is make it easier and more effective for first responders to be FIPS-compliant ... so they can go and do their jobs," said Howard Schmidt, the former cybersecurity advisor to the White House and a backer of the project. The consortium's ultimate goal is to help create a nationwide ID system that will prevent the logistical snafus that first responders experienced during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina, said Schmidt, who is president and CEO of R&H Security Consulting. In both disasters, there were problems identifying and keeping track of first responders. During Katrina, for example, many professionals who made it to the disaster area were unable to help. "First responders didn't have a compliant identification system, so they were turned away," he said. Tiers of Trust's program is available to many different types of U.S. first responder organization including fire, police, rescue and public health departments. Utilities, communications, and transportation companies can also participate. The group is sponsored by a number of security companies including PGP, HID Global, and Secure Network Systems. The consortium's Web site is set to go live on Tuesday. Participating organizations have until year's end to apply for the program.
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Proposals to fingerprint children aged 11 to 15 as part of new passport and ID card plans are being considered.
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Tougher identification rules went into effect Thursday along the nation's borders, but there appeared to be little added delay as travelers unprepared for the change were in many cases allowed to cross with a warning.
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The U.K. government is proposing legislation that would create a system of ID cards with embedded biometric identifiers that everyone living in the U.K. would be required to have by 2011 or 2012.
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A memo sent last week by the While House Office of Management and Budget gives federal agencies 120 days to develop and implement security notification policies, and to start planning to reduce or eliminate the unnecessary use of Social Security numbers and similar personal data.
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Defying Congress, the Department of Homeland Security is pushing to tighten identification requirements at U.S. land borders starting Jan. 31, when it no longer will allow Americans or Canadians to enter the country by presenting a driver's license or declaring their citizenship.
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The US homeland security department is announcing an expedited-access program for certain foreign travelers.
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FLORENCE Interior ministers from the five largest West European countries have agreed to adopt digital fingerprinting on passports, officials here said, but a second day of talks on Monday found them still deadlocked on a plan to create migrant holding
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A controversial new government program requiring residents to obtain digital identification cards will be delayed to help cash-strapped states implement the plan, federal officials said on Friday.
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Blog: Panel approves a bill that backers say will help fix the problem of Social Security number misuse and identity theft. But it has a long and uphill battle to go before it becomes law.
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Some businesses and lawmakers are worried that new identification requirements going into effect Thursday at the borders with Canada and Mexico could create widespread confusion and delays and discourage some people from making the trip.
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Americans born after Dec. 1, 1964, will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under ambitious post-9/11 security rules
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The cost to consumers for helping to secure America became clearer yesterday as a coalition of state groups tallied the bill for implementing the Real ID Act and federal officials divulged the price that some of its workers must pay for new smart cards.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.K. is delaying the start of the procurement process for the IT systems that will eventually issue ID cards for an estimated 50 million U.K. citizens over the next decade. A "major" procurement process was set to begin, but "we're not quite ready yet," said James Hall, chief executive of the U.K. Identity and Passport Service, which is in charge of the ID card project. Hall spoke Monday at the Gartner Inc. identity management conference in London. Hall did not say when procurement would start. The delay confirmsÂ doubts that surfaced a year ago about whether the ID card project could be kept on the government's schedule. A leaked memo released about year ago written by an official in Prime Minister's Tony Blair government outlined ongoing worries about whether the first ID cards could be delivered by 2008, in keeping with the government's schedule. The memo cited concerns over procurement, costs and program management. The U.K. government has several large IT projects under way, including a massive IT revamp of its National Health Service (NHS), which has also fallen under criticism for delays and difficulties with suppliers. The ID card program will cost an estimated Â£5.4 billion (US$10.6 billion), according to the Home Office. Once the ID card project is under way, the U.K. government will issue cards to citizens as they apply for a new passport. The ID card program met wide opposition over privacy concerns, but the government hopes the cards will enhance national security, reduce benefits fraud and strengthen immigration controls. The cards will be issued to those over 16 years old. Hall said it's hoped that businesses will embrace the national ID card as a form of identity, as long as it meets its goals of security and privacy. Hall, a 30-year veteran of Accenture Ltd., admitted he was initially a "skeptic" of the ID project at first, but now is a "passionate believer." "If we get this right, we can actually deliver some huge benefits," Hall said. Â
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Deadline for federal agencies' policies for dealing with data breaches approaches and it's not yet clear whether everyone will be done in time.
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The Bush administration yesterday postponed for at least six months a new security rule that Americans show a passport when crossing U.S. borders by land or by sea, requiring instead that citizens present an identity card and proof of citizenship upon entry for the first time, beginning Jan. 31.