Postal Service to host cloud-based public-private ID protection network
January 7, 2013
Grazed from NextGov. Author: Aliya Sternstein.
The U.S. Postal Service has been tapped to manage a yearlong trial of technology that ultimately should allow citizens to securely register for online services at multiple agencies — without obtaining multiple passwords and other digital identification for each service. Within days USPS is expected to begin hiring one or more cloud companies to host the simplified access network, according to a government notice.
The so-called Federal Cloud Credentialing Exchange, or FCCX, will act as a middleman between agencies and approved popular ID providers, such as Verizon and PayPal, that already have verified the identities of many citizens for e-commerce transactions, federal officials said this week…
If this service works, one day a person might be able to change an address online by logging on to USPS.gov with the same passcode or smart card that person uses to file taxes through IRS.gov and buy books from Amazon.com. The exchange is meant to be part of a larger public-private movement. So far, agencies have stumbled leading the country on a likely decade-long endeavor, called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, to ensure Internet users are who they say they are when interacting online…
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