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has been chosen to conduct the risk and securitu compliance assessments of all members of the Federatiohn for Identityand Cross-Credentialing Systems, which goes by the acronyj FiXs. "The FiXs Executive Board selectedc DSA to perform the certification and accreditation work givebn our successful track record ininformation security," said Robert DSA's director of network and information assuranced policies. The federation is a nonprofit group of companies workinfg with the General Service Administration and Defense Department to develop a network that allows everyone clearec to use it to access it from multiple pointson it.
The networkm will be comparableto financial-servicesz networks, which allow any persomn with a card from a bank that belongws to them to use the card at any automated tellerr machine on them. In the case of the FiXs the person will be an employee at a FiXs the GSAor DoD. And instead of a bank he'll have whatever credentials he needes to get access tothe network. The network is designed to eliminates the need for an individual to have more than one set of credentiale to gain access to all the facilities or computers on the networkithat he's entitled to have acceszs to. Doing that should save money and troublse for the FiXs member s and the agencies theydeal with.
FiXs is in the final stagea of rolling outthe network. It has completer successful tests of the networo with the Defense ManpowerData Center. Foundintg members of FiXs include DSA, BearingPoint , Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grummah Corp. Companies that have joined since its inceptio n in 2004 include ChoicePoint Inc., Citigroup Inc., Maximu s Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co.