ASRC has an opportunity in Sterling, VA for a Systems Administrator.  Successful candidates will be able go through the clearance process.   This position will be responsible for PKI certificate generation, revocation and maintenance.  Data integrity checks along with minor databse administration and maintenance are also a part of the responsibilties.  This position will take part in Certificate Authority root management, subordinate management, backup of the CA system, contingency planning and end user certificate management.

The Obama administration is poised to issue a long-awaited open
government directive as soon as two weeks from now that strikes a
balance between new information technology and new policies, White
House officials said.

My Sun Microsystems colleague Dave Edstrom asked me recently to prepare a webinar entitled “Identity Management in 2010: Trends and Predictions” and present it on the weekly “Software Technical Roundtable” he co-hosts for Sun Microsystems employees and partners. 

The General Services Administration plans to launch an online storefront that agencies can use to purchase computing services that are stored and maintained by third-party providers, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said on Wednesday.

Two major identity management companies are forging ahead with products designed to satisfy what a cloud-computing consortium calls one of the trickiest problems preventing secure and automated connections between internal IT infrastructures and external service providers: identity and authentication.

Last week at The Burton Group's Catalyst Conference, Novell demonstrated a pre-release version of its Cloud Security Service, designed to synchronize login and authentication data between external clouds and internal systems without exposing internal security data.