The U.S. military is a big place, and few things about the military experience are universal across all its ranks, branches, jobs and bases. But one thing that has remained a constant is the Common ...

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.

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 Defense Information Systems Agency is dipping its toes into the huge pool of options for identity security to generate new approaches that go well beyond usernames and passwords. Hoping to roll ...

DOD CIO says a range of U.S. allies have agreed to pursue a "single identity standard," and that Common Access Cards will not be that solution. Biometrics DOD Standards The Defense Department embraced ...

Secure use of Mac OS X-based systems in government and high-security enterprise environments took an important step forward Monday with ActivCard’s support of the operating system in ActivCard Gold, a ...