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Identity Council

The concept of a secure identity has become a critically important issue for citizens, governments, enterprises and any organization that determines rights and privileges for individuals. Identity is important when determining voting rights, allowing access to buildings and computer systems as well as issuing driving privileges, authorizing financial transactions, obtaining medical services, enabling travel and facilitating many other aspects of life. Identity and identification documents are factors in crimes involving identity fraud that cause sizable financial loss and can be misused as tools of terrorism. Both the ability to obtain or create credible counterfeit documents and the ability to obtain genuine ones under false pretenses are threats to identity security.

The Identity Council is focused on promoting the need for technologies and usage solutions regarding human identity information to address the challenges of securing identity information and reducing identity fraud and to help organizations realize the benefits that secure identity information delivers. The Council engages a broad set of participants and takes an industry perspective, bringing careful thought, joint planning, and multiple organization resources to bear on addressing the challenges of securing identity information for proper use.

Identity Council Resources

Identity Council Activities

The Council is currently working on projects to raise awareness of the issues that organizations and the public face in implementing and using identity systems and to promote the use of the appropriate technologies to solve these issues. Council activities include:

  • Developing white papers and briefings on key identity topics to provide educational resources to the industry.

  • Developing industry positions on key identity issues and offering perspectives on solutions.

  • Maintaining an active, public voice on identity topics, promoting the positive aspects of identity technology solutions and responding to reports that contain misinformation about identity technology.

Council Management

The Council is managed by a steering committee composed of a cross section of the financial payments industry and contactless smart chip technology vendors. Steering Committee officers are:

  • Chair: Neville Pattinson, Gemalto
  • Vice chair: John McKeon, IBM
  • Secretary: Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines

Current steering committee members are:

  • John Esser, Oberthur Technologies
  • Harold Kocken, Deloitte
  • Bob Merkert, SCM Microsystems
  • David Walker, Cogent Systems
  • Chris Williams, SAIC

Council Membership

The Identity Council is one of several Smart Card Alliance Technology and Industry Councils. Council participation is open to any Smart Card Alliance member who wishes to contribute to the Council projects.

The Smart Card Alliance recognizes the top three individual contributors in each of the industry councils and the council “honor roll” – the individuals who were leading contributors and participants in the council projects and activities.

Smart Card Alliance members who are active in the Identity Council include:

  • Athena Smartcard Solutions
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • CardLogix
  • CertiPath LLC
  • Cogent Systems
  • Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC)
  • CPI Card Group
  • Cryptography Research, Inc.
  • Deloitte
  • Diebold Security
  • Fiserv
  • Gemalto
  • General Services Administration
  • Giesecke & Devrient
  • HID Global Corp.
  • Hirsch Electronics
  • HP Enterprise Services
  • IBM
  • Identification Technology Partners, Inc.
  • IDmachines
  • Infineon Technologies
  • Infogard
  • IQ Devices
  • L-1 Identity Solutions
  • LaserCard Corporation
  • Lenel Systems International
  • MAGICARD - Ultra Electronics
  • Multos International
  • Nagra ID Security
  • NXP
  • Oberthur Technologies
  • Organization Change Future Workplace, LLC
  • Probaris, Inc.
  • SAIC
  • SCM Microsystems
  • SI International
  • Thales e-Security
  • Tyco International
  • U.S. Department of Defense/DMDC
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • Unisys
  • Visa Canada
  • Visa Inc.
  • XTec, Incorporated
 

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