NIST Authentication 101: A Guide to Save You Time and Help Reduce Risk

February 8, 2022

The NIST Digital Identity Guidelines can be daunting. This primer provides a short, easy-to-consume overview of the SP 800-63 documentation suite to help you quickly get up to speed on the guidelines’ basic concepts and key principles.


In particular, we focus on the guidelines for user authentication, reviewing what NIST refers to as Authenticator Assurance Levels or AALs.

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