ID commissioner sees risks in IPS’s two-stage IT
February 9th, 2010 at 2:10 pm by andrewAccording to ZDnet:
Identity commissioner Sir Joseph Pilling has expressed concerns about the Identity and Passport Service’s two-stage approach to its core technology.
“The IPS have gone for what they call a tactical and a strategic solution to the IT demands of running an ID scheme in this country,” he told the Security Document World conference in London on 8 February. One system has been put in place for the small-scale launch of the scheme, but another will be introduced when it is expanded by forcing passport applicants to enrol.
“I am not sure whether if you have two schemes in short order you double, treble or quadruple the risk or even more than that, but I am pretty clear that it is a quite ambitious approach to take, and I am particularly intending to take an interest in the transition from the tactical to the strategic,” said Sir Joseph.





