credentials

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing a new policy to address Federal agencies’ implementation of Identity, Credential, and Access Management, and earlier this month asked for public comments on the policy draft. Tim McIntyre, our associate general counsel and data protection officer, submitted the below comment to the…

There is a price tag on misused credentials. This week, as Rachel King at the Wall Street Journal reports, Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) bill came out to $940 million. An employee at TCS was found to have used credentials from a previous contracting job at Kaiser to access more than 6,000 confidential files on Epic System’s web portal. Prior…