When Paul Steiner published his 1993 cartoon in The New Yorker with the caption, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog,” little did he know it would become a mantra among security professionals, especially those concerned about authenticating identities on the Net. The job of finding ways to identify dogs in cyberspace has been assigned to the
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, better known as NSTIC. And last week the agency announced the award of $10 million for five pilot projects aimed at improving authentication, security and privacy on the Net in industries ranging to healthcare to education to online payments.
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Feds Back Projects to Bolster Online ID Verification
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. September 24, 2012 05:00 AMWhen Paul Steiner published his 1993 cartoon in The New Yorker with the caption, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog,” little did he know it would become a mantra among security professionals, especially those concerned about authenticating identities on the Net. The job of finding ways to identify dogs in cyberspace has been assigned to the
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, better known as NSTIC. And last week the agency announced the award of $10 million for five pilot projects aimed at improving authentication, security and privacy on the Net in industries ranging to healthcare to education to online payments.