“Identity management software stands to be a gamechanger in government modernization, particularly surrounding authentication measurers…”
“Some federal offices have enforced strong multi factor authentication principles for several years. Fellow panelist Samuel Michael, the chief of the Information Technology Resources Branch at the National Institutes of Health said that secure logins and user verification are important to protecting sensitive health data and personnel.
‘We do have targets at NIH in particular of interest,’ Michaels said, regarding high profile staff at NIH. He also noted that privacy is a major concern at the NIH and is part of the agency’s security framework.
‘We have, you know, millions of electronic health records as limited data sets, they’re not completely deidentified,’ Michaels said. ‘There’s huge privacy components that I think we have to consider as part of zero trust as well.’…” Read the full article here.
Source: Federal Agencies Lean On Multifactor Authentication As Key Security Component – By Alexandra Kelley, March 11, 2022. Nextgov.
