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Identity Applications
- Smart Card Alliance Identity Resources
- Smart Cards and Identity Applications
- Other Identity Resources
Smart Card Alliance Identity Resources
- Best Practices for the Use of RF-Enabled Technology in Identity Management
- Effective Healthcare Identity Management: A Necessary First Step for Improving U.S. Healthcare Information Systems – A Smart Card Alliance Brief for Government Policy Makers and Other Stakeholders.
- ePassport Frequently Asked Questions
- EPC Gen 2 RFID Tags vs. Contactless Smart Cards: Frequently Asked Questions
- FIPS 201 and Physical Access Control: An Overview of the Impact of FIPS 201 on Federal Physical Access Control Systems
- Healthcare Identity Management: The Foundation for a Secure and Trusted National Health Information Network
- Identifiers and Authentication – Smart Credential Choices to Protect Digital Identity
- Identity Management in Healthcare webinar
- Identity Management Systems, Smart Cards and Privacy
- Privacy and Secure Identification Systems: The Role of Smart Cards as a Privacy-Enabling Technology
- Privacy, Identity, and the Use of RFID and RF-Enabled Smart Card Technology – A Smart Card Alliance Brief for State and Local Governments
- The REAL ID Act: Why Real ID Cards Should Be Based on Smart Card Technology
- RF-Enabled Applications and Technology: Comparing and Contrasting RFID and RF-Enabled Smart Cards
- Smart Card Alliance Identity Council
- Smart Card Alliance Response to WHTI Passport Card Federal Register Notice
- Smart Cards and Biometrics in a Privacy-Sensitive Secure Personal Identification System
- Smart Card Technology in Healthcare: Frequently Asked Questions
- Secure Identification Systems: Building a Chain of Trust
- The Top 10 Hot Identity Topics
- Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative PASS Card: Recommendations for Using Secure Contactless Technology vs. RFID
Smart Cards and Identity Applications
Smart card technology is currently recognized as the most appropriate technology for identity applications that must meet critical security requirements, including:
- Authenticating the bearer of an identity credential when used in conjunction with personal identification numbers (PINs) or biometric technologies
- Protecting privacy
- Increasing the security of an identity credential
- Implementing identity management controls
Countries around the world use smart cards for secure identity applications. In addition, both government organizations and public corporations (including Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Chevron, and Boeing) use smart employee ID cards to secure access to physical facilities and computer systems and networks.
Additional information on the use of smart cards for identity applications can be found on the enterprise ID and government application pages and from the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council.
Other Identity Resources
- Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM) Roadmap and Implementation Guidance, November 10, 2009. This document provides Federal agencies with architecture and implementation guidance that addresses existing ICAM concerns and issues.
- Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201) Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors
- Government Smart Card Handbook
- Identity Management Task Force Report 2008, published by the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Biometrics and Identity Management. This report presents an overview of the current state of federal identity management systems and also presents a high-level vision of how these systems can be holistically designed to provide better services while increasing privacy protection. The purpose of this report is to initiate further discussion on this vision, inform policy decisions, and provide direction on which to base near-term research.
- IDManagement.gov, providing information on Federal identity management activities
- Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH)
- Liberty Alliance
- Smart Card Alliance Identity Council
- Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council
