Thank you for attending the DoD Identity Protection and Management Conference, April 18-22, in Orlando, Florida! Below are the presentations from the Physical Security Track, April 19-20th, which focused on HSPD-12 and the resulting FIPS-201 and their impact on the Physical Security community. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

The U.S. Federal Government’s Smart Card Project Managers meeting was held yesterday in Washington D.C. Presentations centered around the recently approved SP800-73 spec for governmentwide secure credentials. SecureIDNews was approved to record the presentations and make the audio available to our readers. Please let me know (chris@avisian.com) what you think of the broadcasts, as we […]

ID technology provider Fargo Electronics says it likes what it sees in the new common ID standards for federal employees and contractors released by NIST and the Department of Homeland Security and that its collaboration with industry leaders provides the company a strong position from which to address the new standards. Read the full article […]

The Interagency Advisory Board (IAB), made up of smart card leaders from major U.S. federal agencies, unanimously voted to approve SP800-73 – a key specification for the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) project. PIV refers to the implementation of smart card and biometric-enabled ID credentials for all government employees. It was mandated by the President in […]

The Smart Card Alliance, has launched the Physical Access Council made up of government and industry leaders. The Council’s goal is to increase adoption of smart cards for physical access and address some of the key issues that organizations have in deploying physical access system technology. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

Security access provider ActivCard Corp., has announced its planned support of HSPD-12 with FIPS 201 certified applets, card management and client software based on open standards. System integrators and government clients will be able to integrate the ActivCard products with other functional components to provide a complete HSPD 12 solution. Read the full article at […]

Imaging and biometrics software provider Aware, Inc. will be introducing its new software solution designed to aid developers in complying with the FIPS 201 personal identity verification standards for federal employee ID cards. A demonstration will be held during the Smart Card Alliance’s e-government conference March 9-11. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

The Smart Card Alliance has released the agenda for it March Smart Cards in eGovernment conference. Highlighted presenters include Judith Spencer, chair of the federal credentialing committee of the GSA; Larry Jellen, general manager for the security and intelligent document unit of the GPO; Rob Atkinson, vice president of the Progressive Policy Institute; and John […]

Curious what to get your significant other for Valentine’s Day? How about a copy of your comments to the revised Personal Identity Verification spec (NIST 800-73) as the deadline is February 14. The highly-anticipated revised draft was released today. Addressing the controversy that engulfed the previous version, the revision is “compatible with both file system […]

With the U.S. government turning into the biggest customer for smart card technology–thanks to a huge push from President Bush–the Smart Card Alliance’s fourth annual smart cards in government conference in Washington, D.C. is coming at an ideal time. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com