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    "title" : "Enabling Trusted Digital Interactions Between People & Government |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Enabling Trusted Digital Interactions Between People \u0026 Government","summary" : "Connect.Gov is a service that helps reduce agency investment and enables a secure, trusted, and inter-operable method for digital interactions between people and government.","date" : "2015-03-06T10:00:01-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jennifer-kerber" : "Jennifer Kerber","jonathan-prisby" : "Jonathan Prisby"},"topics" : {
        
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      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/03/2015-03-06-enabling-trusted-digital-interactions-between-people-government.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/03/2015-03-06-enabling-trusted-digital-interactions-between-people-government.md","slug" : "enabling-trusted-digital-interactions-between-people-government","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/03/06/enabling-trusted-digital-interactions-between-people-government/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eToday, people rely heavily on insecure and inefficient means to access federal government applications to conduct business (i.e., they depend on usernames and passwords to log into federal agency services online). Users are required to create and manage several online accounts for different applications, which can become a nuisance, difficult to manage, and creates administrative burden for the organization. Additionally, with the abundance of these weak credentials (i.e., usernames and passwords that are easy to hack and difficult to trust), organizations – including the federal government – are left with minimal confidence in a user’s identity. The fundamental weakness in authentication and identity proofing (i.e., trusting that people are who they say they are) is felt across the federal landscape.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/03/423-x-300-Key-with-American-flag-Serge-Zamoyski-Hemera-Thinkstock-95453946.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Key with American flag\"/\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerge Zamoyski/Hemera/Thinkstock\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, these issues may soon be relics of a bygone era. \u003ca href=\"https://www.connect.gov/\"\u003eConnect.Gov\u003c/a\u003e is a service that helps reduce agency investment and enables a secure, trusted, and inter-operable method for digital interactions between people and government.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect.Gov enables federal agencies to provide online services to consumers using government approved externally-issued digital credentials in a convenient, privacy-enhancing and secure manner. Users can choose to leverage a credential of their choice from a trusted \u003ca href=\"https://www.connect.gov/whos-involved/\"\u003eCredential Service Provider (CSP)\u003c/a\u003e (e.g., Verizon, ID.me) to access online government services, eliminating the need for agencies to maintain user credentials.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/02/900-x-429-Before-and-With-ConnectGov.jpg\"\n    alt=\"On the left, it shows 3 examples of how without Connect.gov, you can only use an agency-issued credential for access to that agency’s applications. On the right, it shows how Connect.gov enables you to use a single third-party credential to access multiple agencies’ applications.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe solution is \u003ca href=\"https://www.fedramp.gov\"\u003eFedRAMP\u003c/a\u003e-certified and is capable of accepting credentials at Levels of Assurance (LOA) 1, 2, 3, and 4 to authenticate users and provide effective identity proofing service via the CSPs. The system is designed with built-in safeguards to protect the privacy of federal agency customers.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Connect.Gov service:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecurely transmits data between agency applications and CSPs.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoes not store personally identifiable information (PII).\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoes not allow CSPs to track consumer activity, including services/application use.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConnect.Gov can provide numerous benefits for agencies that choose to integrate with the shared service: it provides a one-stop shop to access all levels of credentials, increases security and privacy, streamlines access, enables new digital services, and reduces agency investments. Currently, the program is being rolled out with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Department of State, General Services Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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