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The Federal Bridge serves as a foundational framework for secure identity management in government. It addresses the imperative need for assured identity in electronic transactions among citizens, businesses, and agencies. By enabling interoperability among various federal and non-federal credentialing systems, it facilitates secure access to online services while minimizing administrative burdens. The bridge ensures agencies can trust each other’s identities at known assurance levels, thereby enhancing collaboration and security across domains, supporting multiple operational needs.
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The Federal Bridge A Brief Overview
SAFE HEBCA Industry PKIs Fed PKI: View from 20,000 km SSP Clones (PIV-I) Common Policy CA (HSPD-12) SSPs Serving all other Agencies FBCA CertiPath “SSP” (PIV-I) C4 CertiPath Industry PKIs SAFE “SSP” 4BF Industry Forum April 2009
Why PKI? • E-Gov: government’s need for assured identity in electronic transactions with citizens, businesses, governments, itself; • Security: need for high level of identity assurance for secure access to online systems and services. 4BF Industry Forum April 2009
Why A Bridge? • Allow trust among members at known levels of assurance of identity • Members continue to control their own domains and relationships (non-hierarchical) • Expand trust span easily and minimize administrative burdenand cost of cross-domain interoperability 4BF Industry Forum April 2009
Federal Bridge Business Case • Source of interoperability for ALL Federal Agency HSPD-12 credentials (6.2 million and counting as of 3/2009) • Source of interoperability with non-federal high assurance credential providers • Primary author of master policies and methodologies (first among equals) 4BF Industry Forum April 2009
Early Use Cases • Enable Agencies to validate each other’s PIV cards for physicalaccess • Validate desktop and network logins • Enable Agencies to validate PIV-Icredentials from external parties • Support high assurance authentication to Agency Level 3 – 4 applications from government and private sector credentials 4BF Industry Forum April 2009