The NSTIC National Program Office (NPO) has announced its 2015 funding for pilot projects. In an NSTIC blog yesterday, the office’s Jeremy Grant wrote that the government body is issuing a call for the private sector to develop a security ecosystem in which users can choose from a number of post-password methods of authentication.
To support this private sector-led initiative, NSTIC NPO is inviting innovators to apply for funding of pilot projects that “create and demonstrate solutions that can help jumpstart the adoption of trusted strong authentication technologies in lieu of passwords…”.
Grant outlines in his post the specific challenges NSTIC is attempting to address in funding these projects, so applicants take note.
In summary, NSTIC is seeking to fund pilots that address the challenges concerning the usability or strong authentication, privacy concerns surrounding identity management technology, and the lack of standards for interoperability preventing widespread adoption as well as solutions that can be used across a wide range of sectors and relying parties.
More details are available through NSTIC NPO’s funding opportunities website, as well as in Grant’s original blog post that broke the news.
To date, NSTIC’s pilot program has provided about $30 million in funding for identity projects. The program was first launched in 2012.
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February 13, 2015 – by Peter B. Counter
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