New ‘rules of the road’ for ID management aim to get past password

The Identity Ecosystem Steering Group, a public-private partnership with the goal of moving past the password as the guarantor of online identity, Tuesday released the first iteration of its flagship plan to create a more secure digital environment.

The roadmap, called the Identity Ecosystem Framework Version 1, seeks to set the nation on a path toward adopting more secure techniques for issuing and maintaining credentials, as outlined in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The strategy’s goal is “helping individuals and organizations utilize secure, efficient, easy-to-use and interoperable identity credentials to access online services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice and innovation,” according to NIST’s website.

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