Would implementation of PIV based access control help improve the performance of the intelligence community? By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines We’ve had President Obama characterizing the 2009 Christmas Bomber incident as a failure on the part of the “system” to address a threat. Problems with information sharing again play a major villain. IDmachines wonders if the […]

Theory vs. Practice and Preaching to the Choir By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines A quid pro quo for doing business with U.S. federal agencies and deploying the infrastructure, credentials and applications adhering to FIPS 201 is to get the supporting products and services on the Government Services Administration Approved Products List also known as FIPS 201 […]

atsec information security has announced the successful GSA FIPS 201 evaluations of several electromagnetically opaque sleeves from Brady People ID, leading to these products being listed on the GSA FIPS 201 Approved Products List. Brady People ID’s badge holders protect federal employees PIV badges against skimming attacks. The evaluation and validation of these products provides […]

Another reason to leverage FIPS 201 and PIV-I By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines IDmachines attended the American Association of Airport Executive (AAAE) Aviation Security Summit in Washington DC. This 9th annual program brings together operators, federal, state and local government, including representatives from the legislative branch, architects and consultants. The program provided a good overview of […]

The December meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

Before the end of the year smart card vendors could have a standard card command set that enables interoperability between credentials without middleware. The General ID Card Command Set (GICS) builds a standard language for the card command set so that different card standards can communicate without middleware, says Patrick Hearn, vice president of government […]

By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines The Smart Cards in Government conference was held in Washington and ran concurrently with the Interagency Advisory Board meeting. IDmachines long ago concluded that the path to convergence runs through the use of the same method of authentication for logical access, physical access and device authentication. In a federated environment such […]

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is searching for a two-factor authentication product, according to a Computerworld report. The bureau’s current authentication method is not suitable for remote access because it is vulnerable to key logger attacks that enables a hacker to impersonate an employee without being detected. The bureau is looking for a physical devices, […]