Biometrics And their Relation to Identity Management Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force
By addebook • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Biology •
•
Biometrics And their Relation to Identity Management Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Defense Biometrics
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
online: http://www.acq.osd.mil/
178 page, OCR-Quality, bookmarked, pdf 3.4 MB
2007-04
Protection removed
excerpt:
Executive Summary
A Defense Science Board Task Force was organized to address a number of issues relating to the use of Biometrics in the Department of Defense. The Terms of Reference (Appendix A) asked that specific organizational issues be addressed promptly and the Task Force provided an interim briefing that focused on these issues.
While the terms of reference refer to “biometrics,” the Task Force is convinced that “identity management” is the more inclusive and the more useful construct. The Task Force holds two companion theses. First, while we can come up with an endless set of scenarios in which biometrics might be called upon to play a role, with analysis and a little abstraction without losing the essence, the endless array of scenarios can be reduced to a compact set of “use cases”. This compact set of use cases will help us appreciate our companion thesis, that a common “back office” process (and associated “data model”) can be envisioned to service all the biometric, and thus Identity Management, use cases.
That said, we clearly did not have either the time or the resources to study Identity Management (IM) conclusively, especially in terms of the broadened set of organizational associations, use cases and Defense applications, and even social issues, attendant to that sprawling field. The “common back-office process,” and related architecture, to support biometrics, as alluded to just above, is itself a rich field of study that deserves and demands close attention and broader treatment than we were able to provide here. Another important aspect of the total subject of Identity Management is the whole universe of tokens and credentials. There are many of these, in as many different formats and standards as there are applications. Only some of them support, or are used in conjunction with, biometrics. We speak to some extent of the credential standard mandated for use across the federal government, called FIPS-201. Beyond that, however, this large and important topic will have to await a broader treatment of the whole of Identity Management, and we do recommend that such an effort be undertaken with a fully scoped charter.
Biometrics And their Relation to Identity Management Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Defense Biometrics
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
online: http://www.acq.osd.mil/
178 page, OCR-Quality, bookmarked, pdf 3.4 MB
2007-04
Free download Links
http://rapidshare.com/files/66630807/R20071030F.rar
Related Posts
