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Framework for Emergency Response Officials (ERO): Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure

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Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Teresa T. Schwarzhoff

Abstract

This document describe a framework (with the acronym ERO-AA) for establishing an infrastructure for authentication and authorization of Emergency Response officials (ERO) who respond to various types of man-made and natural disasters. The population of individuals authenticated and authorized under ERO-AA infrastructure includes Federal Emergency Response Officials (FEROs), State/Local/Tribal/Private Sector Emergency Response Officials (SLTP-EROs) and the FEMA Disaster Reserve Workforce (DRW). The system supports the establishment, conveyance and validation of Identity Credentials (ICs), Attribute Credentials (ATs) and Deployment Authorization Credentials (DAs). Apart from enumeration of the types of EROs and their associated authority domains (called major players) and types of credentials, the conceptualization of the framework for ERO-AA infrastructure includes detailed description of various component services under three major service classes: Credentialing Service Class, Identity Verification and Attribute Validation Service Class and Trust Federation Service Class.The framework is predicated upon the use of trusted tokens capable of supporting biometric as well as secret key based identity authentication.
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 7601
Report Number
7601
NIST Pub Series
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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Keywords

authentication, authorization, emergency response officials, identity and attribute credentials, trusted tokens
Information technology, Cybersecurity, Public safety, First responder preparedness and Disaster and failure studies

Citation

Chandramouli, R. and Schwarzhoff, T. (2010), Framework for Emergency Response Officials (ERO): Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.7601 (Accessed January 2, 2025)

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Created August 31, 2010, Updated November 10, 2018