In this digital age, connecting to the Internet can leave us at risk of having personal information stolen. As public safety agencies evolve and adopt new technologies, we must ensure that the sensitive information they capture and store is secure. NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division’s Security Portfolio develops and enhances security solutions for current and future public safety communications. Identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) remains a major research focus for this portfolio.
Last year, PSCR held its first Public Safety and First Responders workshop, to discuss current best practices, gaps in security and technology, future-looking ICAM use cases, and the implications these technologies have on first responder daily operations. This year, our security team is following up with new guidance on critical topic areas under the ICAM umbrella, including identity federation, biometric authentication, and identity as a service (IDaaS).
What is ICAM?
Put simply, ICAM is a set of security disciplines that allows an organization to enable the right individual to access the right information at the right time. It is the tools, policies, and systems that allow an organization to manage, monitor, and secure access to protected resources.
The nationwide public safety broadband network presents the opportunity for public safety agencies to collaborate and communicate with each other. Interoperability (the ability to communicate and share information across systems using standards) between agencies when responding to an emergency is imperative for a successful response. This collaboration and interoperability must be implemented in a secure architecture to protect sensitive information. The federated solutions proposed via ICAM will provide this secure foundation and a solution that is specifically tailored to public safety challenges.
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