Kshemendra Paul: So 3 things…
JIm Flyzik: Okay.
Kshemendra Paul: Number 1 is we want to do more to strengthen the management practices across agencies to better align them to drive, accelerate the pace and drive more effective solutions around information sharing and safeguarding. Bob mentioned this earlier, you know, about the needing to you know address those sort of things to make some progress. That’s actually something we’re very much focused on with our partners in the White House. From a technology perspective, we think we’re at a real inflexion point around identity credential and access management. We’ve had some success, a lot of progress issuing PIV cards and you know implementing agency-based and programmatic approaches. We think the time is right to tie that together around identity and access management.
JIm Flyzik: Okay.
Kshemendra Paul: We’ve had a lot of success with our state and local partners, initial success, so we want to get that to the next level.
JIm Flyzik: Great.
Kshemendra Paul: And that’s at the heart of our project interoperability. And then from a mission perspective, 2 things are front burner. One is what we’re calling statewide and regional information sharing environments. The second is you know leveraging the assets we’ve put in place over the past decade around terrorism and homeland security information sharing as we’re moving into cyber security information sharing.
JIm Flyzik: I’m really glad.
Participant: Mark brought up the Georgia Tech solution, because it’s the same group at Georgia Tech that’s working on that, has also been accelerating something called the NIEF, National Identity Exchange Federation.
JIm Flyzik: Okay.
Kshemendra Paul: And that’s at the heart of a lot of what we’re trying to do with federated identity credential and access management, so again a secure, standards-based approach for identity and access management and to get to these sort of shared capabilities, right, is, you know, things coming together.
JIm Flyzik: Yeah. Yeah.
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