Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Episode 22: Government ID event hits DC as FIPS 201 deadline and Presidential election approach

Thursday, September 11, 2008

The annual Smart Cards in Government conference will take place just a few days before the ominous October 27 PIV issuance deadline and just weeks before the Presidential election that is likely to impact many of the identification initiatives at the federal level. Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance, talks with re:ID host Chris Corum about the event scheduled for October 22-24 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.


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The General Services Administration is seeking information from vendors relating to Personal Identity Verification (PIV) services.

The GSA wants to review different PIV scenarios for 2011 and beyond. This includes government furnished systems managed by an integration contractor, government-owned and operated services, contractor-owned-and-operated services, or some combination of the three.

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The June 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 list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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In another of a series of podcasts investigating identity standards, Kevin Gillick, executive director at GlobalPlatform, talks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the standards landscape and the role it plays.

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In our continuing podcast series on identification standards, Don Thibeau, executive director at the The OpenID Foundation and chairman and president of The Open Identity Exchange, speaks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the ID standards landscape and some of its different projects. OpenID may be the one ID standard that many people are already using but don’t even realize it.

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Government issued ID cards aren’t what they use to be. In the last 10-years the documents have changed from simple piece of laminated plastic to high-tech IDs with multiple security features. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin spoke with Robert DeVincenzi, president and CEO at LaserCard, about the company’s role in changing IDs and a Frost & Sullivan report that analyzes some of the progress.

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ActivIdentity Corporation announced its new convergence technology, the F5 PAC Solution with API, and a FIPS 201 Partner Program to offer government agencies and commercial enterprises integrated security management capabilities for physical and logical access control.

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