Cabinet Office joins the Open Identity Exchange
On Tuesday, 12th June, Mike Bracken announced that the Cabinet Office will be joining the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). The Identity Assurance Programme team explain how this will enhance a process of...
View ArticleLess About Identity, More About Trust
There’s a group of people here at GDS working on a programme called IDA – which stands for Identity Assurance. We’re helping develop a secure service that lets people log in to online government...
View ArticleIdentity assurance for local government services
Local government is facing many challenges in providing digital services to citizens and a significant barrier to that is identity assurance. In order to understand these challenges, GDS commissioned a...
View ArticleIdentity assurance – Stepping Up A Gear
Yesterday, with the announcement by DWP of the first Identity Provider (IdP) framework for government, the Identity Assurance Programme passed an important milestone in the development of a...
View ArticleTo Identity and Beyond
There’s been a fair amount of speculation as to who else would join the supplier framework for Identity Assurance. We are happy to confirm that the eighth successful supplier is PayPal. As a founder...
View ArticleIdentity Alphas
Identity Assurance is made up of many different areas of work, as you’d expect of a complex programme. Whether they’re focused on business processes, security, commercial models, government standards...
View ArticleDelivering Identity Assurance: You must be certified
We need to be sure that before any of the identity assurance framework suppliers begin providing services to departments, they are certified as being capable of delivering proof of identity as defined...
View ArticleIdentity Assurance: Maintaining Good Practice
On Friday (31 May) we published a new version of the Good Practice Guide (GPG) 45 – Identity Proofing and Verification of an Individual. It can be found on the Cabinet Office site together with the...
View ArticleAdvisory group publishes identity assurance principles for consultation
Identity assurance is about providing users with a simple, trusted and secure means of accessing public services, so we are working hard to ensure that privacy is at the heart of the service we will...
View ArticleIdentity Assurance: First delivery contracts signed
Today we are happy to announce an exciting new phase in the Identity Assurance Programme as we develop user-focused identity services for exemplar transactions as part of the transformation of...
View ArticleCabinet Office joins the Open Identity Exchange
On Tuesday, 12th June, Mike Bracken announced that the Cabinet Office will be joining the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). The Identity Assurance Programme team explain how this will enhance a process of...
View ArticleLess About Identity, More About Trust
There’s a group of people here at GDS working on a programme called IDA – which stands for Identity Assurance. We’re helping develop a secure service that lets people log in to online government...
View ArticleIdentity assurance for local government services
Local government is facing many challenges in providing digital services to citizens and a significant barrier to that is identity assurance. In order to understand these challenges, GDS commissioned a...
View ArticleIdentity assurance – Stepping Up A Gear
Yesterday, with the announcement by DWP of the first Identity Provider (IdP) framework for government, the Identity Assurance Programme passed an important milestone in the development of a...
View ArticleTo Identity and Beyond
There’s been a fair amount of speculation as to who else would join the supplier framework for Identity Assurance. We are happy to confirm that the eighth successful supplier is PayPal. As a founder...
View ArticleIdentity Alphas
Identity Assurance is made up of many different areas of work, as you’d expect of a complex programme. Whether they’re focused on business processes, security, commercial models, government standards...
View ArticleDelivering Identity Assurance: You must be certified
We need to be sure that before any of the identity assurance framework suppliers begin providing services to departments, they are certified as being capable of delivering proof of identity as defined...
View ArticleIdentity Assurance: Maintaining Good Practice
On Friday (31 May) we published a new version of the Good Practice Guide (GPG) 45 – Identity Proofing and Verification of an Individual. It can be found on the Cabinet Office site together with the...
View ArticleAdvisory group publishes identity assurance principles for consultation
Identity assurance is about providing users with a simple, trusted and secure means of accessing public services, so we are working hard to ensure that privacy is at the heart of the service we will...
View ArticleIdentity Assurance: First delivery contracts signed
Today we are happy to announce an exciting new phase in the Identity Assurance Programme as we develop user-focused identity services for exemplar transactions as part of the transformation of...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....