Government will facilitate strategy
The private sector must lead the charge for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace while the government facilitates the process, government officials say.
The goal of the strategy is to protect privacy, fight identity theft and fraud, drive economic growth by driving business online and create a platform for new Web services, said a White House administration official. User names and passwords are no longer good enough to secure online identities and something more is needed, be it a smart card, USB token, mobile device or something else.
The idea is to have the private sector offer citizens credentials that they could use to verify identity online, the official said. The credentials would be optional and individuals could choose to have one that they use for all accounts or multiple depending on the account they are accessing. There will also be a choice of where to get a credential from. “Our goal is to have a credential that would work anywhere online. If consumers want to have more than one they can,” said the official
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