What is identity assurance?
Identity assurance is a new service that will give people a secure and convenient way to sign in to government services.
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Identity Assurance: First delivery contracts signed
Today we are happy to announce an exciting new phase in the Identity Assurance Programme as we develop user-focused identity services for exemplar transactions as part of the transformation of government digital services. Five of the Identity Providers on the …
Advisory group publishes identity assurance principles for consultation
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Identity assurance is about providing users with a simple, trusted and secure means of accessing public services, so we are working hard to ensure that privacy is at the heart of the service we will provide to users. The Identity …
Identity Assurance: Maintaining Good Practice
On Friday (31 May) we published a new version of the Good Practice Guide (GPG) 45 – Identity Proofing and Verification of an Individual. It can be found on the Cabinet Office site together with the full set of previously …
Delivering Identity Assurance: You must be certified
We need to be sure that before any of the identity assurance framework suppliers begin providing services to departments, they are certified as being capable of delivering proof of identity as defined in the Government's Good Practice Guides.
Identity Alphas
Identity Assurance is made up of many different areas of work, as you'd expect of a complex programme. Whether they're focused on business processes, security, commercial models, government standards or anything else, they all share the common goal of producing …
To Identity and Beyond
There’s been a fair amount of speculation as to who else would join the supplier framework for Identity Assurance. We are happy to confirm that the eighth successful supplier is PayPal. As a founder member of the Open Identity Exchange …
Identity assurance - Stepping Up A Gear
Yesterday, with the announcement by DWP of the first Identity Provider (IdP) framework for government, the Identity Assurance Programme passed an important milestone in the development of a cross-government identity assurance platform.
First Identity Assurance Framework Announced
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Today DWP has announced that 8 of the bidders from the Invitation to Tender in May have been successful and are forming the framework of Identity Provider (IdP) services to Universal Credit. This is the first instance of the cross-government …
Identity assurance for local government services
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Amanda Derrick - former Strategic and Service Development Lead for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Local government is facing many challenges in providing digital services to citizens and a significant barrier to that is identity assurance. In order to understand these challenges, GDS commissioned a small sample review. You can read the full report here.
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