Agencies are implementing multifactor authentication as part of the federal push toward zero-trust architectures. For staff, the common Personal Identity Verification card gets the job done.
Yet, things get complicated when agencies need to onboard contractors, who by some estimates account for up to 40 percent of the federal workforce…
“Do we have good visibility, good onboarding and offboarding? Do we know when they’re supposed to be onsite?” says J. Wolfgang Goerlich, advisory CISO at Cisco Secure. “Especially if it’s a short-term assignment, it can be complicated.” …
“There are so many different systems” within the agency IT architecture, says Tom Suder, founder and president of the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, a nonprofit organization that provides a collaborative forum for government, academic and industry professionals. “How do you have one system that allows you to access all of those different systems, which all have different credentialing?”
Agencies will need technologies that support a federated approach to identity. Many will use tools like Quest One Identity Manager or Cisco Meraki VMX Enterprise to help consolidate and coordinate their efforts… Read the full article here.
