RegardingID Archive | UTSA’s information assurance program gets NSA nod

Thursday, August 14, 2008

The University of Texas San Antonio’s Master’s of Science and Bachelor’s of Business administration degree in information technology have been designated as Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the U.S. National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security.

The designation is for UTSA’s information assurance program, which includes coursework in biometrics, data mining, cyber forensics and intrusion detection. Graduates of the program are expected to have gained the knowledge and skills necessary to go onto careers in information security specializing in web-based defense.

Through the designation, the school is now able to apply for scholarships and grants through both the federal and Department of Defense information assurance scholarship programs.

NFC Forum appoints TÜV SÜD for RF Validation Service

The NFC Forum has appointed TÜV SÜD Product Service to provide its Radio Frequency (RF) Analogue Test Tool Validation Service.

TÜV SÜD, a global provider of product testing and certification, will validate all RF Analogue test tools used as part of the NFC Forum Certification Program for testing the RF Layer of the communications stack to prove conformance to the NFC Forum specifications.

Air Force evaluating new SIPRNet smart card

In the wake of information leaks to Web sites like WikiLeaks, the Department of Defense is instituting a PKI hardware-based authentication system on its classified network, the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet). To that end, it’s evaluating a new smart card for use as a hardware token.

Kantara’s trust framework GSA approved

The Kantara Initiative announced its approval by the U.S. Government Services Administration as a Trust Framework Provider program certifying levels of assurance one, two, and three non-crypto – non-PKI, says Joni Brennan, executive director at the Kantara Initiative.

BT, Hitachi partner for financial services market

BT and Hitachi Europe Ltd. announced that they are jointly designing an identity management solution for the financial services market. In this move, BT is introducing BT Unified Trading federation, a cloud-based trust utility for secure identity exchange and will incorporate Hitachi’s Finger Vein Authentication Engine and technology to offer biometric security capabilities.

Kantara accredits Electrosoft

The Kantara Initiative announced that Electrosoft is the latest Kantara-Accredited Assessor able to perform Kantara Service Assessments at Assurance Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4. The certification provides a way for relying parties to understand the trustworthiness of electronic identity credentials issued at commonly agreed levels of assurance. Electrosoft is an IT service provider.

HID’s pivCLASS is GSA approved

HID Global announced that the company’s pivCLASS readers and authentication systems have achieved compliance with the U.S. General Services Administration Evaluation Program for certifying that products meet FIPS 201 federal identity specifications.

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UTSA’s information assurance program gets NSA nod