Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Vendor consortium formed to guide agencies in HSPD-12 compliance and operation

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor

Lots of questions … too many places to go to seek answers. Wanting to lend assistance in solving that problem is a key purpose behind a new consortium established to help integrators and federal agencies deal with the many nuances of HSPD-12 compliance. Called, predictability enough, the HSPD-12 Interoperability Consortium, it was founded by smart card, authentication and encryption solutions provider SafeNet and now includes eight other companies, some of them SafeNet competitors.

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