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NIST Releases Draft Guidance on Mobile Credentials

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 11th, 2014

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this month released draft guidance on derived credentials for authenticating mobile devices on federal networks. Users who want to logon to a sensitive federal computer typically must insert their Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards–called Common Access Cards (CAC) at the Department of Defense–into the machine. This creates a challenge for smartphones and tablets that are too small for an internal card reader. A derived credential solves this problem by storing the authenticating…

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