US Federal CIO Signs Memorandum Requiring HTTPS For all Government Websites by End of 2016
From the IDG News Service:
The U.S. government is mandating the use of the HTTPS security protocol on all of its public websites and web services by the end of 2016.
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U.S. CIO Tony Scott on Monday signed the mandate to deploy HTTPS and use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), a system that instructs a web browser to always connect to a website via HTTPS. That prevents a browser from being redirected to an insecure site.
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See Also: Full Text of Statement by US CIO Tony Scott (Includes Several Links)
See Also: HTTPS-Only Standard Info Page (via CIO.gov)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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