NASCIO Call-to-Action: The Necessity for Maturing Identity and Access Management in State Government

As state leaders act to streamline services, consolidate IT infrastructure and perform more efficiently, trusted digital identities and their authentication becomes a critical enabler with the digital ecosystem. All levels of government and the private sector, are confronted by this challenge and are working together to create common policy, guidelines, standards, and responsibilities to protect cyber assets and ensure appropriate mechanisms are in place for a coordinated identity ecosystem. This guidance presents the value proposition along with key factors for establishing an enterprise-wide approach to identity management.

 

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The State Identity Credential and Access Management Guidance and Roadmap (SICAM)

The State Identity and Credential Access Management (SICAM) Guidance and Roadmap outline a strategic vision for state-based identity, credential, and access management efforts, and emphasizes the importance of implementing the SICAM architecture and services in support of the challenges associated with trust, interoperability, security, and process improvement. States can, and should, provide a secure, auditable environment for the processing and exchange of information across the entire spectrum of state business. This guidance promotes an enterprise approach and it is essential that state governments take the initiative to ensure the integrity of the data entrusted to them and provide a high level of security and privacy to citizens, customers, and partners.

 

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