Athena Smartcard Solutions, a developer of smart cards, announced that the Athena IDProtect Duo PIV, contact-contactless smart card was approved by U.S. General Services Administration for deployment in HSPD-12 programs. The Athena IDProtect Duo PIV card incorporates FIPS 201 requirements and is listed on the U.S. General Services Administration Approved Product List. Products listed on […]

The October 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 and video recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to […]

SCM Microsystems Inc. announced that it has received volume orders of smart card readers for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Common Access Card program. Recent orders from SCM’s U.S. distributors topped 400,000 readers for ongoing installations, starting in the fourth quarter. SCM’s readers will be used to provide secure logical access for military personnel, as […]

Suprema, a developer of fingerprint recognition technology, has announced that their algorithms for matching and extracting fingerprint data has outperformed the other matching algorithms and 23 of the extracting algorithms tested in the Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX) test performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Their matching algorithm yielded a .23% false […]

The election of Barack Obama to the White House may signal good thing to come for those involved with government IT projects, according to Jeremy Grant, senior vice president and identity solutions analyst at the Stanford Group Company. “We think an Obama presidency is the better of what was two so-so possible outcomes for the […]

Codebench, Inc. announced that Software House has signed a distribution agreement to sell its PIVCheck Product Suite, a cardholder validation solution for HSPD-12 compliance with automated registration and certificate management. PIVCheck Plus has been integrated with Software House C·CURE 800/8000 and C·CURE 9000, providing three-factor authentication and performing biometric matching. Managing the acquisition of cardholder […]

Ten agencies meet deadline, overall 29% of credentials issues U.S. government agencies have issued more than 1.5 million HSPD-12 compliant credentials, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. This is 29% of the total 5.58 million expected to be issued to government employees. And while many agencies didn’t meet implementation plans ten […]