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Department of Education to Rollout Two-Factor Authentication
From: Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:01:03 +0000
(Please excuse the cross-posts.) The U.S. Department of Education Federal Student Aid technology office announced this week at the 2011 Federal Student Aid Conference its plans to issue 90,000 tokens to privileged users who have access to Personally Identifiable Information on FSA systems. The privileged users will include financial aid staff at your institutions. More information is available at http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD6059.pdf We will also feature the Department's plans next week as part of IAM Online (www.incommon.org/iamonline<http://www.incommon.org/iamonline>) scheduled for Tuesday, December 6th, at 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. CT / Noon PT. Please plan to join us to learn more about two-factor authentication, a pilot deployment at Duke University, and implementation details for the Federal Student Aid deployment. The Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) has prepared a resource on Two-Factor authentication that is available at https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/itsg2/Two-Factor+Authentication EDUCAUSE Policy and HEISC continue to work closely with the Department of Education's Chief Information Officer, Chief Security Officer, FSA's Chief Information Officer, and other staff to influence future technology decisions and to more closely coordinate on matters of privacy, security, and identity management. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks, -Rodney ------------------------------------------------------ Rodney J. Petersen Senior Government Relations Officer & Managing Director of Washington Office EDUCAUSE 1150 18th Street, N.W., Suite 900 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 331-5368 / (202) 872-4200 www.educause.edu ------------------------------------------------------ Get the latest news on higher education IT policy issues and regulations. Subscribe<http://net.educause.edu/PolicyDigest/1029292> to the EDUCAUSE Policy monthly Policy Digest<http://www.educause.edu/Policy+Analysis+%26+Advocacy/PolicyNews/PolicyDigest/231360>.
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