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 […]

A former U.S. cybersecurity advisor is spearheading a new consortium to help first responders better prepare for crisis situations such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. The consortium, which was announced on the sixth anniversary of 9/11, includes some of the top security solutions providers, such as HID Global, OMNIKEY and PGP. Read the full article […]

Datastrip Inc. has integrated UPEK’s TouchChip TCS1 silicon fingerprint sensor into its DSVII-SC (smartcard) and DSVII-PA (passport) handheld ID verification devices. The UPEK TouchChip TCS1 is the first and only silicon fingerprint sensor approved by the General Services Administration for use in the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS 201) and Personal Identification Verification (PIV) Programs. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an improved version of its Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Data Generator, a downloadable Java application that can be used to create test data for evaluating PIV systems and cards. The latest version of the PIV Data Generator has been enhanced for dynamic data production and […]

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