The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, has released a draft version of the minimal security requirements for federal agencies. (Download PDF) The report, published Friday, comes one month after government auditors found that the agencies are not prepared to deal with the triple Internet menaces of spam, phishing and spyware.
The requirements are meant to help the government organiztions improve their information technology security and comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002. The document covers 17 areas with regard to protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of federal information systems and the information processed, stored and transmitted by those systems. NIST has invited public comments on the draft standard until Sept. 13, 2005. After it becomes effective, federal agencies must be in compliance within one year.
Many Republicans and Democrats believe the strength of the U.S. Constitution is protecting citizens from the abuse of power.
An often independent judge the late Honorable Livingston Wingate, Esq. once said "All governments are an army paid to protect the land, the people, from bandits and thieves and not to become the mafia or foe they fight against."
One definition of fascism is as industry and the military use power for selfish ends. Today, nothing represents freedom more than the fight to protect personal ID from foreign invasion, Nothing is as good as two factor authentication with an offline device used by each citizen. Using the right technology is like arming consumers to defend ourselves.
EDI Secure LLLP's single use credit card number ID USPTO patent allows the government and us consumers to use a personal device, a digital equivalent of having a right to carry arms to defend oneselves. No one is going to steal ID if we keep private data offline. Theives use stealth and offline ID protection fences ID from theft.
Citizens should read the rules and know this is not high tech stuff that only nerds should know. It is about our right to protect our family from domestic and foreign invasion of privacy, security and cash. There is no guaranteed pursuit of happiness if cyber bandits are allowed to humiliate our government and rob us at will.
We should trust that our government though slow may do the right thing if we remind it through the democratic process of discussion and votes to do right. We must tell all legislators to protect private ID and keep it offline.
Our rights are as important as that of IT giants and of the government itself to privacy without which law and order would cease to exist. I ask everyone to read the rules not just to know how to apply for contracts but with an eye to stop the present plague affecting todays confidence in our government to protect us from the Cyber mafia.
A year ago, January 2006, EDI Secure LLLP was purchased by IDPixie LLC which owns the patent US 6,598,031 B1 granted on July 22, 2003 for APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ROUTING ENCRYPTED TRANSACTION CARD IDENTIFYING DATA THROUGH A PUBLIC TELEPHONE NETWORK from inventor Jeffrey Ice. So to update EDI Secure LLLP's place in the marketplace, I add the above and below data.
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