Replies to post #121029 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[goin fishn]

Hi Weby


The thing that I have been noting over the past few months is that since we discovered and dissected the Presidential Plan to Secure Cyber Space,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/

the governmental activities regarding securing their networks have all been following that framework pretty consistently. The activities noted in the articles I posted tonight -the Winter Fox exercise and the report that the DoD expected to have thousands of employees using the CAC cards, show that the plan is moving forward (and quite rapidly-compared to our government's usual speed). Those activities are also interesting places for Wave to have played a consultant's role.(If that is where they did their consulting.) And, as you note-Wave is consulting just at the time that the government is going to decide the machine security authentication requirements.

The best thing that is noted in those two articles is that if a major agency adopts this system, the potential savings would be 32 million dollars per year. Money talks like nothing else can. Even the most narrow minded of federal administrators will see the value.

Then, of course, comes the need for the government vendors to adopt the system for their traveling laptops. One of the articles I posted a couple of months ago speculated that once a trusted network is in place, vendor salesmen who wish to plug into an agency network will have to authenticate just the same as all the agency machines do.

From the federal government, to the states, to the government vendors. This is going to go on for a long time.

Here's to a long hockey stick handle!

Goin Fishn
But rained out this weekend :-(

[scorpio_esq]

Weby, the smart card readers will have to be device-authenticated NOW. There is no bifurcation between device and person authentication -- no separation between a phase 1 and phase 2 in implementation. It's all concurrent as regards the need for the TPM. The card readers need to be trusted on the IP network today.