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EDUCAUSE Live! October 3, 2006 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Overview of U.S. Federal Government Identity Management Initiatives

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Peter AltermanPeter Alterman
Chair, Federal PKI Policy Authority, and Assistant CIO for E-Authentication
National Institutes of Health

Peter Alterman is chair of the Federal PKI Policy Authority and assistant chief information officer for electronic authentication at the National Institutes of Health. In 2001, he was acting director of the Federal Bridge Certification Authority and served as senior advisor to the chair of the Federal PKI Steering Committee until 2003. Alterman has been actively involved in Internet technology since serving on the Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee in 1989. In 1997, he received the NIH Director's Award for "providing innovative leadership to NIH Executives and Managers by identifying and addressing critical issues in managing the information technologies of NIH." In 2002, he received the E-Gov Pioneer Award and the Potomac Forum Leadership Best Practice Award for the NIH-EDUCAUSE PKI Interoperability Project. In 2003, he received Special Recognition Awards from the Federal Bridge Certification Authority and the Federal PKI Steering Committee. In 2005, he received a special recognition award from the E-Authentication Partnership for his work on levels of assurance determination. Alterman received his PhD in 1974 from the University of Denver.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Peter Alterman, and the topic will be "Overview of U.S. Federal Government Identity Management Initiatives."

Peter Alterman will present an overview of the federal government's electronic identity management initiatives, focusing on eGovernment and eCommerce. He will touch on the government's electronic security initiatives as they interact with the eGov services efforts and suggest how these two threads will impact identity management for colleges and universities in the near future.

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