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 […]

Neurotechnologija, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, announced that the company’s MegaMatcher 2.0 fingerprint recognition algorithm has received full certification in the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Minutiae Interoperability Exchange Test (MINEX). The MINEX test evaluates fingerprint template encoding and matching to determine compliance with the government’s Personal Identity Verification […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s Real ID compliance recommendations, already under fire from so-called privacy entities, has received another hit, this one from the Smart Card Alliance, which says that the recommended 2D barcode technology that would be used in state-issued driver licenses isn’t secure enough. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

To provide an additional level of security for accessing and managing data center equipment, Raritan has released a smart card and common access card reader solution that can be used with a KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch. Its Paragon II KVM Smart Card Reader is compliant with HSPD-12 standards, but is not yet on GSA’s […]

Thales’ electronic personalization solution, SafeSign Management Server, has made the GSA Approved Products List for FIPS 201 compliance, meaning U.S. government agencies can now use the company’s product to issue PIV cards and credentials. Thales’ SafeSign Crypto Module is also on the GSA list. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com