Last fall produced news in the field of global identity assurance and trust frameworks that the Republic of Estonia will extend their national identity card program to offer issuance of credentials to non-residents.  We at Electrosoft find this news particularly interesting due to its…

On October 17, President Obama signed an executive order entitled “Improving the Security of Consumer Financial Transactions” at the offices of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as the first part of the administration’s simultaneously announced “BuySecure Initiative”.  The purpose…

A health Information Technology (IT) ecosystem is emerging, founded on Digital Health Services that are transforming the way health IT data is created, digitized, collected, exchanged, analyzed, used and reported. The primary purpose of Digital Health Services is to improve the quality, accuracy…

The Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) were developed in 2005 by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), working in conjunction with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The VVSG is a detailed specification/…

ISO/IEC 27001 is a well-respected and often cited standard that has influenced numerous other information security standards including the US Federal Government’s FISMA program, the industrial control system security management standard ISA-99, the commonly used models of PKI governance based on…

In the last few months of 2013 and leading into 2014, Electrosoft seized the opportunity to partner with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) in updating the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (the “Framework”). This collaborative venture spanning across the Federal…