BIO-key International, Inc. announced that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has included BIO-key’s Vector Segment Technology® (VST) fingerprint software in their listing of approved products as part of the GSA’s FIPS 201 Evaluation Program (GSA FIPS 201 APL). BIO-key’s VST software enables ANSI-INCITS 378 template generation and matching and can be easily integrated into […]

Liska Biometry has recently received FIPS 201 approval from the US Federal Government for its suite of DCS5000 image capture platforms that use a standardized digital camera. Also, the Company has received FIPS approval for its Facial Recognition Middleware. The suite is also capable of producing International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) compliant portraits. Liska’s FIPS-approved […]

A massive effort but one that could bring equally massive returns By Chris Corum, Executive Editor The nation saw first-hand the need to identify critical personnel in disaster situations in the days and weeks following 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina. “After Katrina we had 6000 doctors driving boats while people went without care simply because we […]

WidePoint Corporation announced its appointment to the Board of Directors of The Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems™ (FiXs), a coalition of government contractors, commercial companies and not-for-profit organizations that are establishing a global secure identity cross-credentialing network. FiXs provides a trusted identity management infrastructure compliant with HSPD-12 and FIPS 201. The FiXs network enables […]

Highly sought contract will result in issuance of 400,000 IDs at 40+ agencies By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor Vendors who make FIPS 201-compliant products have spent the first quarter of 2007 aggressively courting federal agencies while waiting to see who will get a piece of the anticipated $100 million contract as part of the General […]

Identity Stronghold announces it will supply the U.S. General Services Administration with Secure Sleeves™ and Secure Badgeholders™ as part of the EDS team which was recently awarded the $66 Million HSPD 12 ID Management Services contract. Identity Stronghold will be providing EDS the “electromagnetically opaque sleeve” required by the federal government standard FIPS 201, thus […]

CoreStreet announced that its PIVMAN™ System has been selected as a Card Technology Innovation Breakthrough Award finalist at the annual CardTech SecurTech show. CoreStreet’s PIVMAN System enables cardholder status and privilege checking of any government-issued smart card in any environment and was recently used as part of the Winter Storm demonstration organized by the Department […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor Now that federal agencies are invested in the planned government-wide issuance of highly secure, interoperable smart card IDs, actually implementing the new system remains the biggest practical and technological hurdle. “The card is only the first stage,” says Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance. “There’s a whole […]

U.S. Department of Defense employees are able to utilize multifunction peripheral devices, such as printers and scanners, utilizing their Common Access Card to log in to the device via technology provided by eCopy. They?re then able to send their scanned documents directly to electronic workflows or business software applications. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

The SecuGen SDK Collection Release 10, contains NIST Certified fingerprint template extraction and matching algorithms that are compliant with NIST’s FIPS 201 standard for the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors. Together with the recently announced Hamster IV™ fingerprint reader, SecuGen’s software developer kit containing these newly released algorithms could aid developers […]