The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) is an Obama Administration initiative aimed at establishing identity solutions and privacy-enhancing technologies that will improve the security and convenience of sensitive online transactions through the process of authenticating individuals, organizations, and underlying infrastructure – such as routers and servers.
Summarizing the key points from the NSTIC:
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“We need to start thinking about different business models for utilities because otherwise the traditional paradigm just doesn’t work anymore.”
In this exclusive interview, Kevin Doran, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Energy & Environmental Security (CEES) discusses the future of smart grids with TalkStandards.
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Hello all
Apologies for last week, I had to teach my course at Oxford University and so it was difficult to do the week in standards last week. But we are back this week covering both weeks, and a lot has happened in the world of standards in the last two weeks as we see below.
Social Network Privacy
The explosion in worldwide use of social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter has resulted in the amount of private material being uploaded has increased exponentially. Users share opinions, experiences, advice and much much more. A study released last year reports that there are serious flaws in the privacy policies of social network sites; and concludes that privacy standards need to be widely implemented in order to prevent unauthorized abuse of personal information.
As a frequent world traveller, I am a user of a system called IRIS. 
IRIS is retina scanning system and once you have signed up to it and been validated by a scan of your retina, you can walk through an IRIS scanner and avoid the queue for immigration.
It’s a bit clunky but it works… So, I was intrigued when I saw a post from Toby Stevens titled “My eyes have expired” (read post here).
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