From: FierceGovernmentIT
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s authentication guidance document, known as NIST Special Publication 800-63, is being revised to better align with modern expectations of how to use authentication technologies within federal information systems, said Sean Brooks, privacy engineer at NIST.
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During an Oct. 6 panel discussion, University of Maryland Baltimore County Vice President and Chief Information Officer Jack Suess said NIST’s earlier iteration of SP 800-63 (pdf) was not focused on actual solutions that are easy to deploy.
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