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NIST Publishes Three White Papers On Strengthening Cyber Authentication And Identification

Friday, December 18th, 2015

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NIST Publishes Three White Papers On Strengthening Cyber Authentication And Identification

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published three white papers on Wednesday on separate cyber authentication topics to be discussed in a workshop on the topic next month.NIST’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) released the white papers on the three workshop focus areas: strength of identity proofing, strength of biometric authentication, and attribute metadata and confidence scoring. In these papers the agency examines concepts of how to implement measurement science in these three areas of…

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