NIST issues draft guidelines for mobile security

From: Federal Times

By NICOLE BLAKE JOHNSON

Federal agencies may be one step closer to ditching bulky card readers for securing their smartphones and tablet computers, thanks to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

NIST has released two draft documents aimed at enabling federal employees and contractors to verify their identities on mobile devices through alternative means. One way is through so-called derived credentials.

NIST’s special publication 800-157, “Guidelines for Derived Personal Identity Verification Credentials,” provides technical standards for adding digital credentials from PIV and CAC cards to a smartphone or tablet. This allows “the mobile device to take the place of the smart card for remote authentication to federal systems,” according to NIST.

The guidelines specify ways to insert credentials into a mobile devices, using microSD tokens, USB tokens, SIM cards, or embed them in the mobile device. The draft document focuses on managing the issuance, maintenance and termination of digital credentials.

Comments on the draft documents are due April 21.

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