Codebench Inc. announced that it has teamed up with Mercury Security, Quintron Systems Inc., and Farpointe Data to create a consortium that will provide the market with a high-assurance PKI at the door solution. The business partnership brings together Codebench’s PKI at the Door technology with Mercury Security’s Open Access Platform; Quintron’s AccessNsite, multiplatform access […]

By Salvatore D’Agostino, CSCIP, IDmachines LLC IDmachines and other colleagues attended a workshop last week at the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. on the draft FIPS 201-2. The workshop enabled NIST, other government agencies and industry to discuss the initial changes and to propose other changes to PIV […]

Outsourcing identity and credentialing matures By Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications So, you want to deploy a converged smart card system for logical and physical access control for your company? You start taking inventory, looking at the operating systems in use, applications that would have to be enabled, public key infrastructure technology that would need […]

Salamander Technologies’ MOBILE PIV software has been integrated with the Motorola Solutions MC75A handheld mobile computer and biometric smart card reader attachment to add a FIPS 201-compliant cardholder unique identifier (CHUID) reader to the General Services Administration Approved Product List (APL). Salamander Technologies’ MOBILE PIV identification software, part of Salamander’s interTRAX Suite of Accountability Solutions, […]

HID Global announced it will be demonstrating the first in a planned family of FIPS 201 compliant solutions at ISC West 2011. The company’s Federal Identity Compliance Initiative will make it easier for federal agencies to upgrade an existing physical access control system to support recently mandated government identity-verification standards. Customers will be able to […]

The impact of FIPS 201-2, ICAM, PIV-I, NSTIC By Salvatore D’Agostino, CSCIP, IDmachines LLC A little over a year ago IDmachines reviewed the FIPS 201 Government Services Administration (GSA) Approved Products List (APL) also known as FIPS 201 Evaluation Program Products and Services. FIPS 201, Personal Identity Verification (PIV), has just been updated with a […]

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 […]

Quantum Secure, a provider of enterprise software to manage and streamline security identities, compliance and events across disparate physical security systems, announced a collaboration effort with the Global Identity Practice within HP Enterprise Services. HP Enterprise Services has experience developing and implementing enterprise-wide and identity management solutions that can help governments meet their HSPD-12 and […]

HID Global announced FIPS 201 certification for its line of multiCLASS magnetic stripe readers. The expansion offers U.S. government organizations a simplified path as they begin to migrate programs from legacy magnetic stripe cards to contactless 13.56 MHz FIPS201 credentials. HID Global’s multiCLASS line of multi-technology readers allows an agency’s access control system to function […]

Intercede has announced that its MyID PIV v9, the latest version of its identity and credential management system, has been approved by the U.S. General Service Administration for use by government agencies as part of the FIPS 201 program. This enables Intercede’s existing and new federal customers to take advantage of the new generation of […]