Datacard Group’s newly launched Datacard SP75 Plus and CP80 Plus card printers have recently appeared on the GSA Approved Product List (APL) for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201 card printer specification. The card printers personalize highly secure, durable cards and address the complex security issues associated with distributed issuance. Key security features include ultraviolet […]

Security directors and those responsible for physical access control systems (PACS) within government agencies have a new resource to help them choose the right path to accept FIPS 201 compliant credentials–a new white paper, developed by the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council in collaboration with the Open Security Exchange (OSE), Security Industry Association (SIA) […]

CardLogix’s smart card, CREDENTSYS-J™ has been certified by NIST and FIPS 201. By receiving their certification, their smart card can now go to the next stage of approval for the U.S. Government’s Personal Identity Verification (PIV) program. Testing for these certifications, which cover algorithms and software applet verification, was performed by Infogard Laboratories, Inc. The […]

Kaba, a worldwide manufacturer of access control solutions for over 140 years, and CoreStreet are partnering to build advanced, standalone electronic locks that enable convergence of physical and logical security systems. Using CoreStreet’s technology, Kaba will offer one physical access control system (PACS) to comply with Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201) and will […]

The September monthly meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was held in Washington D.C. Your FIPS 201 Team 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. Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting: […]

A guide for both product developers and compliant card issuers By Chris Corum, Executive Editor If you are confused about what products you can and cannot buy for a FIPS 201 implementation, you are not alone. Both buyers and sellers of identity products are often found scratching their heads due to seemingly missing categories of […]

Bioscrypt has released its PIV-Station, a biometric reader designed for use by U.S. Federal organizations. The PIV-Station meets the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements mandated by the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12). The PIV-Station has received GSA approval as a FIPS 201- complaint CHUID Reader (Contact) and CHUID Reader (Contactless). It is the first […]

CardLogix’s CREDENTSYS-J™ smart card has recently been certified to the National Institute Of Standards and Technology (NIST), FIPS 201 and many major cryptographic algorithm standards. These certifications advance the CREDENTSYS smart card to the next stage of approval for supply to the US Government’s Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Program. Testing for these certifications, which cover […]

As agencies around the country are preparing for the October 27, 2008 deadline, some agencies have a slightly harder road ahead of them: those agencies not using the General Services Administration’s HSPD-12 Managed Service Office. GSA has signed up 67 agency customers and has the potential to issue as many as 900,000 cards by next […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor Less than four months since EDS stole some of competitor BearingPoint’s thunder by winning the General Services Agency’s bid for a shared service provider to execute HSPD-12’s ID-card program, BearingPoint is making waves with a major agency contract. BearingPoint announced Aug. 1 a new contract with the U.S. Department of […]