Wednesday, June 17, 2009

DISA seeks identity management technology

Defense Department officials want to learn more about emerging identity and access management technologies used to get access to the department's computers and networks, according to an information request from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

DISA wants to develop a new privilege management strategy for DOD, according to the June 15 announcement .

DISA officials plan to evaluate emerging identity management techniques such as role-based access control, attribute-based access control, and risk-adaptive access control.

With role-based access control, workers are not assigned individual permissions because organizations create roles for various job functions and permissions to access certain systems are assigned to specific roles. Staff members can be assigned various roles to have access to different systems, according to DISA.

Responses are due by June 22.

more at fcw

No comments:

Post a Comment