{"id":7034,"date":"2014-08-25T12:04:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T19:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:24:34","slug":"aafes-and-navy-joust-over-vosb-online-store-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7034","title":{"rendered":"AAFES and Navy joust over VOSB online store credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>Thomas C Shull, the CEO of&nbsp;Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) has presented a business case to the DoD&#39;s Executive Resale board this month to allow over 18 million honorably discharged veterans to use military exchange services.&nbsp; This creates a $100M increase in revenue possibilityfor AAFES and is currently referred to as the Veterans Online shopping Benefit (VOSB.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, despite the lack of any increase cost to taxpayers, the Navy &amp; Marine Corps exchange&#39;s senior policy officials are challenging an on-line availability of the VOSB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&quot;{Navy Officials}&#8230;.believe hurdles to implementing online shopping for all veterans will be higher than AAFES predicts, particularly in finding a foolproof way to verify veteran status and the character of their discharges&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/militaryadvantage.military.com\/2014\/08\/aafes-makes-business-case-for-all-vets-to-shop-online\/\">http:\/\/militaryadvantage.military.com\/2014\/08\/aafes-makes-business-case-for-all-vets-to-shop-online\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>As an information assurance professional, don&#39;t you love a challenge?&nbsp; Why could there not be a simple gateway to include the already used&nbsp;DS Logon to the AAFES online shop? The Department of Defense Self-Service Logon (DS Logon) is a secure, self-service logon credential&nbsp;which allows&nbsp;individuals affiliated with the DoD or VA to access multiple websites using a single username and password.&nbsp; The vetting process is proven and the security is quite extensive.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7937,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions\/7937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}