Two years ago, then-Department of Defense CIO Terry Halvorsen announced a plan to replace the common access card within two years. Today, the CAC is still alive and well as the Pentagon’s primary ...

The Department of Defense will phase out the use of the Common Access Card for network login, replacing it with biometric identity authentication systems that are standardized between the U.S.

Defense officials hope the Common Access Card's days are numbered as they continue to test new identity management solutions. Biometrics DOD Encryption Identity Authentication Insider Threats Defense ...

BELLEVUE, WA -- The Department of Defense (DOD) has selected Saflink to participate in its third segment of the DOD's Common Access Card (CAC) project. Saflink will work with the DOD Biometrics Fusion ...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Fort Sam Houston is currently installing the Defense Biometrics Identification System or DBIDS at all gates. An enhanced identity authentication and force protection system, ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 2003--SSP Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSPX) and SSP-Litronic, long-term providers of identity management solutions for corporate and government institutions, ...

DISA director all but rules out use of Outlook Web Access by remote users because of its poor security. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Although there are 6 million probes of Defense Department networks a ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...