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Events

• Workshops

Releases

• NIST Announces Funding to Form Steering Group to Support Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, 03/12/12

• March Workshop to Support Trusted IDs in Cyberspace

• NIST FY 2012 Budget Signed into Law, 12/06/11

• Administration Releases Strategy to Protect Online Consumers and Support Innovation and Fact Sheet on National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, 04/15/11

• Tech America/Tech Industry Support NSTIC, 03/03/11

• Jeremy Grant Selected to Manage Establishment of National Program Office for NSTIC, 01/31/11

Blogs and Op-Eds

• Oct. 14, 2011—Howard A. Schmidt, White House Blog –Advancing the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace: Government as Early Adopter

• June 2011--Ari Schwartz--Communications of the ACM: Identity Management and Privacy: A Rare Opportunity To Get It Right

• Apr. 26, 2011--Howard A. Schmidt - White House Blog - The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and Your Privacy

• Apr. 20, 2011--Pascal Levensohn - Opinion: Strategic vision for a more secure cyberspace

• Apr. 15, 2011--Leslie Harris, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology - National Identity Strategy Envisions a More Trustworthy Internet.

• Apr. 15, 2011--Howard A. Schmidt - President Obama Releases the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

• Feb. 16, 2011--Howard A. Schmidt - Working with the Private-Sector to Enhance Cybersecurity (RSA Town Hall)

• Jan. 7, 2011--U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard A. Schmidt Announce Next Steps to Enhance Online Security, Planned National Office for Identity Trust Strategy

• Jan. 7, 2011--Howard A. Schmidt - A National Program Office for Enhancing Online Trust and Privacy, White House Blog

News Coverage

• TechNewsWorld, US Offers $10M to Jump-Start ID Security Tech Research, John K. Higgins, 02/07/12

• New York Times Bits: Even Big Companies Cannot Protect Their Data, Nicole Perlroth, 01/07/12

• Fierce Government, Q&A: Jeremy Grant on NSTIC implications for government IT, Molly Bernhart Walker, 07/27/11

• Gov Info Security, Jeffrey Roman, A Plan to Improve Online Security, 06/01/11

• Huffpost Tech, John Henry Clippinger, The Privacy Bomb: How to Tame and Feed Big Data, 05/16/11

• Technology News World, John K. Higgins, White House Gets the Ball Rolling on Single Credential Online ID System, 05/03/11

• US Banker, Another Stab at Federated Identity, Rob Garver, 05/11

• ABC News, Michael Ono, Online Identity Theft Prompts Security Guidelines From White House, 04/21/11

• Fox News, Obama Administration Unveils Internet ID Plan, 04/15/11

• Bloomberg, Juliann Francis, U.S. Unveils Plan to Shield $10 Trillion Online Marketplace, 04/15/11

• Forbes, Kashmir Hill, The Password is Dead. Time for Better Online Security, 04/15/11

• Wired, David Kravets, Obama Calls for Secure Online-Identity System, 04/15/11

• PC World, Grant Gross, White House Releases Trusted Internet ID Plan, 04/15/11

• Information Week, Elizabeth Montalbano, White Houses Issues Online Trusted Identities Plan, 04/15/11

• eWeek, Fahmida Y. Rashid, White House Unveils Final Trusted Identities in Cyperspace Proposal, 04/15/11

• GovInfoSecurity, Eric Chabrow, Single Digital Password Credential Sought, 04/15/11

• PC Magazine, Chloe Albanesius, White House Unveils Plan for Secure Online IDs, 04/15/11

• ars technica, Nate Anderson, "With passwords "broken," US rolls out Internet identity plan," 04/15/11

• CBS News, Katie Couric Notebook, 02/10/11

• MSNBC, Herb Weisbaum, "The man in charge of making the Web safer," 01/27/11
  
  
• Fast Company, Kaliya Hamlin, "National! Identity! Cyberspace! Why We Shouldn't Freak Out About NSTIC", 01/10/11