A webinar on mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs), presented by the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), introduces new resources to help financial institutions implement support for mDLs.

Off the top, hosts Bill Fisher and Ryan Galuzzo of NIST provide a walk-through of NCCoE’s mDL privacy risk assessment, to help parties gauge what’s at stake in implementing mDLs. Its data flow diagram, an “abbreviated version of the NIST Privacy Risk Assessment Methodology”  written from the perspective of a financial institution, includes five questions that cover goals, potential problems and potential solutions.


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