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CSO: Two years after the OPM data breach: What government agencies must do now

In this look back at the OPM data breach, Jeremy Grant of Venable and FIDO’s Executive Director Brett McDowell lay out the FIDO biometric approach for authentication to secure the government from data breaches like OPM.

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