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Welcome to the new site for Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM) Playbooks! We are consolidating all existing FICAM and Federal Public Key Infrastructure (FPKI) playbooks to this new page to help you find answers and content faster. Please bookmark this URL for future reference.

FICAM Playbooks

A playbook is a comprehensive guide on a technical topic, describing both overarching strategy and tactical approaches. The below table is sorted by title.

Title Type Latest Update Description
Digital Identity Risk Assessment Playbook PDF 09/2020 The Digital Identity Risk Assessment playbook is a six-step playbook to complete a digital identity risk assessment as described in OMB Memo 19-17 and NIST Special Publication 800-63-3.
Digital Worker Identity Playbook PDF 01/2021 The Digital Worker Identity Playbook is a practical guide to manage digital worker identities.
Digitally Sign a Microsoft Word Document Markdown 03/2018 This guide will walk you through the steps for digitally signing a Microsoft Word document with your PIV credential or similar digital certificate.
Digitally Signing Documents for Submission to Office of the Federal Register Markdown 07/2018 This guide will walk you through the procedures for digitally signing a Microsoft Word document for submission to the Office of the Federal Register using your PIV credential or similar digital certificate.
Enterprise Single Sign-On Playbook PDF 02/2021 The Enterprise SSO Playbook is a five-step playbook to aid agenices in planning an SSO or Identity Federation service
Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management Roadmap Version 2.0 PDF 12/2011 The FICAM Roadmap, developed by working groups under the Federal CIO Council, contains processes, procedures, and considerations for planning and managing logical access, physical access, enterprise identity management, and federation within federal agencies. (Note, the enterprise architecture section of the Roadmap has been superceded by the FICAM Architecture Playbook.)