It was 10-year ago this past October when the first U.S. Defense Department Common Access Card was issued. Since then the largest U.S. agency has issued 24 million of the smart card-based secure ...

The Defense Department is making a number of improvements to the Common Access Card to enhance identity authentication and physical and network security. DoD image Traditional authentication ...

Since its introduction in the early 2000s, the Common Access Card (CAC) has become the most widely used Department of Defense (DoD) identity credential, with more than 24 million cards issued to date.

Is your Common Access Card, Defense Department ID card, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ID card or driver's license expired or about to expire? How are you supposed to get a new one when ...

The official start of summer is almost here, and so is the beginning of the end of the Common Access Card. The shift, which will begin with the initial rollout of prototype authentication devices this ...

Hoping to roll out some solutions before the end of the fiscal year, the agency is weighing multifactor authentication, derived credentials and technologies to support mobile devices and rid its ranks ...

The Department of Defense's (DoD's) Common Access Card is undergoing modification to make it easier for visually color-impaired security officials to identify bearers who are military, government ...

The Defense Department is seeking to cut back on the use of a “smart” ID card that has long been used by military personnel and contractors. The Common Access Cards (CAC) are now used as ...

When one of the military’s top cybersecurity generals announced last week that he wanted to get rid of the Common Access Card (the credit card-sized identification badge used across the ...

That risk increases when they allow their military ID cards or common access cards to be copied. “A copy can be used to obtain identity theft or to create fraudulent identification for ...

CoreStreet’s certificate validation technology has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for its Common Access Card (CAC) program. The new technology will significantly expedite the ...