CoreStreet’s PIVMAN Solution was used in the May 15 “Spring Blitz” FIPS-201 credential usage demonstration, hosted by Tampa Fire Rescue with technical support provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The demonstration took place at the Tampa Fire Training Academy in Tampa, Fla., and simulated routine and emergency access for hurricane disaster sites as well […]

CoreStreet announced that its PIVMAN product can now provide electronic authentication and validation of Common Access Cards for securing physical access to U.S. Department of Defense facilities worldwide. The CoreStreet PIVMAN Solution encompasses software for handhelds and PCs, and is leveraged for both mobile and fixed authentication stations, as well as including a management station. […]

Bell ID’s ANDiS4FIPS201 Card & Application Management solution has been placed on the GSA Approved Products List in recognition of its compliance with the FIPS 201: Electronic Personalization standard. ANDiS4FIPS201 has been tested and approved as an electronic card personalization product which generates and loads mandatory and optional objects to a PIV Card, as defined […]

Wireless match-on-card fingerprint trials have passed security and speed tests and barely missed, in two out of three instances, the accuracy tests, according to results released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Still, this match-on-card ID technology, designed for use in personal identification verification cards that many federal agencies must adopt this fall, […]

The Government Accountability Office says the White House Office of Management and Budget needs to make some changes to how interoperable identification credentials are being deployed throughout the federal government. Linda Koontz, director of Information Management Issues at the GAO, gave the recommendation during a hearing Wednesday on HSPD-12 in front of the U.S. House […]

Datastrip Inc., Exton, Pa., has partnered with Codebench Inc. to verify PIV, TWIC and FRAC identification cards as well as enroll cardholders into physical access control system at government and military facilities. Datastrip will integrate CodeBench’s software into its Datastrip’s DSV2+TURBO handheld. PIVCheck Mobile, the software from Boca Raton, Fla.-based Codebench, provides a solution with […]

The March 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 […]

Four of Cherry Electrical smart card reader products have been granted FIP201 certification by the U.S. government. As a result, U.S. federal agencies and contractors are now authorized to use applicable Cherry keyboards and stand-alone smart card readers for logical access control under the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12. HSPD-12 requires the use of a […]

Thirty-seven percent of government I.T. officials don’t know when they will be compliant with government identity mandates, according to a survey commissioned by Quest Software Inc., Aliso Viejo, Calif. Another 35% think they will be compliant in the next two years. The survey states that 69% of government I.T. professionals believe that identity management is […]

Probaris Inc. will issue the identification cards to first responders and CoreStreet Ltd. will provide the devices to read then during the Winter Blast First Responder Authentication Credential usage demonstration, hosted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Office of National Capital Region Coordination and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The event is taking […]