The General Services Administration (GSA) has implemented its first cloud-based physical access system at the Neal Smith Federal Building in Des Moines, Iowa. The GSA contracted with BridgePoint Systems to utilize its TrustAlert Physical Access Control Systems. BridgePoint partnered with EmbarkIT to install the system, which replaced the GSA’s 10-year-old legacy system. The system leverages […]

By Dave Adams, Senior Product Marketing Manager, HID Global Beginning in fiscal year 2012, U.S. government agencies must upgrade their physical and logical access control systems to provide federal employees and contractors with more secure and reliable forms of identification using Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials. These credentials must leverage smart card and biometric technology […]

By Peter Boriskin, Director of Product Management EAC, ASSA ABLOY As technology continues to advance in the security industry, the nature of credentials and ID technologies in higher education and government facilities is rapidly changing. We’re seeing a number of different trends, including the enforcement of FIPS 201 and PIV requirements for government agencies, migration […]

By Colin Soutar, Director of Identity and Privacy Assurance, CSC In the past, the term “credential” was used solely to refer to a dedicated physical entity that intertwined an individual’s identity with a specific entitlement, for example a passport or driver’s license. We’ve all witnessed the progression over the last decade or so, however, towards […]

ARX received FIPS 201 approval from the U.S. Government’s General Services Administration on the Approved Products List for compliance for its PrivateServer network-attached hardware security module. The ARX PrivateServer HSM is a network-attached HSM and key management system. It comes with a load balancing option, and enables organizations to stay in compliance with several regulations […]

The December 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 […]

Salamander Technologies announced that its MOBILE and MOBILE PIV software has been validated by Motorola Solutions. The Motorola Solutions’ Validated Solution Program includes joint testing at the Motorola Solution Center in Holtsville, New York. MOBILE software provides bar code and smart card reading to identify and track personnel and companies at an incident, emergency or […]

Numerous challenges to porting ID to handsets Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications U.S. government smart card officials want some way to either use the PIV on mobile devices or have the mobile itself be used as the credential. If there was one item missing from the first draft of FIPS 201-2 it was that, officials […]

By Salvatore D’Agostino, CSCIP, IDmachines LLC The Smart Cards in Government conference in November brought together a very good group of users, solution providers and trade associations’ members to engage on the state of the practice on trusted identities and the use of secure elements. IDmachines contributed to a pre-conference workshop on PIV-I physical access […]

The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded Entrust Inc. a four-year, $4.5 million contract to continue providing hosted PKI services and digital certificates as the security infrastructure for HSPD-12 initiatives. An incumbent in the re-compete proposal, Entrust has provided managed PKI solutions and services for the GSA’s credentialing program since 2007. Distributed through the GSA’s […]