Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

New FIPS 201-approved products available

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Atsec Information Security announced the addition of several new products to the list of approval procedures for FIPS 201 conformance on the GSA’s FIPS 201 Evaluation Program Web site.

The new additions can be found here. The APL lists those products and services that are in compliance with the current version of the standard and its supporting publication. [end] 

SecuGen announced that the General Services Administration added two of its fingerprint scanners to the FIPS 201 Evaluation Program Approved Products list.

The solutions, which are both compliant with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Personal Identity Verification FIPS 201 standard, are the Hamster IV v2 fingerprint reader and ID-USB SC/PIV v2 combined fingerprint and smart card reader.

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This year Oberthur Technologies is on track to deliver more than two million smart cards to the U.S. government in 2011, making it the leading supplier of FIPS 201-compliant Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards for the fifth year running.

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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.

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Research In Motion (RIM) is adding some notches to its belt in terms of product capability, reports CIO Blogs.

Two of RIM’s products have received the U.S. government’s Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 security certification, which means they’re approved for use within U.S. federal government agencies and organizations.

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SecuGen has announced its Hamster IV v2 fingerprint reader, the new generation of its Hamster IV fingerprint readers, has met the requirements Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Single Finger Capture Device Specifications and received FBI certification for FIPS 201/PIV.

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Watchdata Technologies has recieved Level 2 FIPS 140-2 validation certificate to Watchdata for its WatchKey USB Token under the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) by NIST and the Communication Security Establishment of Canada.

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