Key players praise OMB's work on identity authentication; Treasury dismisses need for digital ID task force

Two experts on identity security are telling a feel-good story about the federal government's implementation of policies to authenticate and manage the identities of individuals accessing their systems, pointing to the flexibility allowed by key guidance documents for adapting to cloud and mobile technology.

“I think government is moving, probably a little faster than they're comfortable with, but they are moving,” said Sean Frazier, advisory chief information security officer for a partnership between the security firm Duo and networking hardware...