VIENNA, Va., April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Transglobal Secure
Collaboration Participation, Inc. (TSCP) announced today that it has been
selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as one of
28 organizations that will compete for grants to develop and implement pilot
programs for The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC),
an initiative signed by President Obama in April 2011.
NSTIC identifies a set of guiding principles for accelerating the use of
trusted digital identity credentials. The strategy aims to deploy a system that
helps secure transactions on the Internet, improve the public's awareness and
control of personal information, and stimulate growth of online commerce.
"TSCP is honored to be part of this industry team that is focused on an
initiative to protect and secure our national infrastructure," said Keith Ward,
President and CEO of TSCP. "The NSTIC Pilot Program is a way for TSCP member
companies, along with organizations and states that have joined the TSCP Team,
to demonstrate key NSTIC concepts and identify barriers to adoption across
technical, political, social, and economic domains. The TSCP approach brings
together government, private and public sector participants to collaborate in
achieving NSTIC's goals. A key challenge that crosses all domains is being able
to increase security while preserving privacy."
"TSCP realized early on that there is no single government, agency or company
that can address security in cyberspace on its own," said Ward. As a result, the
TSCP team has engaged several non-member teaming partners who will add depth to
the team's overall expertise. Those partners include Open Identity Exchange
(OIX), Trusted Computing Group (TCG), National Association of State Chief
Information Officers (NASCIO) and the All Hazards Consortium. He further stated,
"TSCP's approach is a 'trusted architecture framework' - through various
real-life case scenarios."
About TSCP: TSCP, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(C)(6) technical association
comprised of defense and technology companies in the U.S. and Europe, as well as
U.S. government departments and agencies and European government ministries.
TSCP is a Government-industry partnership specifically focused on mitigating the
risks related to compliance, complexity, cost and IT that are inherent in
large-scale, collaborative programs that span national jurisdictions.
TSCP members include: BAE Systems, The Boeing Company, EADS, Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, U.S. Dept. of Defense, Government Services
Administration, U.S. Secret Service, UK Ministry of Defense, the Netherlands
Ministry of Defense, the French government, Microsoft, CA Technologies,
ActivIdentity, Boldon James, Deep-Secure, FuGen Solutions, Gemalto, Intercede,
NextLabs, NLR, PwC, Quest Software, Titus and Wave Systems.
For more information, visit TSCP on the web at http://www.tscp.org .
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