Just about every computer, program, administrative function, email account, and other stores of private information on the world wide web and physical, unconnected tech devices alike have passwords that correspond with usernames, both of which must be known by persons trying to access such programs.
Identity management, the practice of keeping one’s own or a business entity’s information safe and secure, is highly important in today’s world of increasing occurrences of cybercrime, not to mention the fact that incidences of crime channeled through the Internet is getting more severe in nature.
According to recent projections, the field of identity and access management – more or less the same thing as identity management – will rake in roughly $7.1 billion in revenues from around the world.
WidePoint Corporation, a technology firm that wears several hats, one of the most popular – if not the most popular – hats is that of access and identity management. Just today, a press release that came out indicated that the federal government awarded a handful of contracts to WidePoint Corp to provide the United States government with identity management services, particularly in the areas of securing credentials and authenticating certificates.
Altogether, they are worth roughly $770,000.
The company is considered an original in the field, having provided its services to the United States federal government since 1999; seven years after, in 2006, WidePoint Cybersecurity Solutions Corporation – the full name of the tech company – started dealing in identity management, though only with the federal government.
Such a lengthy history of dealing with the government, or any one entity, for that matter, proves the experience of WidePoint in relation to its competitors. When it comes to technology, experience with a particular niche often goes farther than having generally more experience, for example.
WidePoint Corporation is located primarily in McLean, Virginia, though it also has branch offices in Columbus, Ohio, Fairfax and Hampton, Virginia, Southern Pines, North Carolina, Ireland, England, and The Netherlands, making it one of the global identity and access management firms around.
