This category collects all posts on identity assurance.
I wanted to point you to a post on the GOV.UK Verify blog that you might have missed. It talks about the programme’s objectives, and how the team has been making progress to meet those objectives.
To meet the Digital By Default Service Standard, digital services have to ‘make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences.
Identity assurance is a new service that will give people a secure and convenient way to sign in to government services.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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.
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