All federal agencies will have to come up with a plan to implement use cases for PIV credentials by the end of March, according to a memo released by the White House Office of Management and Budget. “Each agency is to develop and issue an implementation policy, by March 31, 2011, through which the agency […]

The Smart Card Alliance has issued some guidance for organizations wanting to issue PIV-I credentials. As states, corporations and other organizations look to secure logical and physical access many are looking at what the federal government has done. Two publications from the federal government can help groups get started: Personal Identity Verification Interoperability (PIV-I) for […]

Ellen Hamlin, program manager at Hewlett-Packard, demos the self-service portal for HP’s Assured Identity Plus solution. “It is a full end-to-end suite of services that builds on our foundation that we built with our PIV card deployments,” Hamlin says. “The HP solution adds logical access and physical access and integrates it with an identity management […]

French card manufacturer Isra Cards has announced the release of its new contactless smart card, the Mifare Plus. According to Isra, the new smart card features an integrated ‘CPU’ chip designed to provide companies with advanced security and privacy without having to change their system to be compatible with new Mifare Plus technology. The card […]

CertiPath announced that Judith Spencer, identity expert and former co-chair of the Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management Subcommittee (ICAMSC) for the U.S. General Services Administration, has joined the company as policy management authority chair. In this role, Spencer will set and maintain policies and drive consensus on a wide range of security issues affecting […]

EK Ekcessories has developed the NEW Patriot Card Holder for federal employee credentials. This revolutionary card holder has been designed to keep your government issued Common Access Card or smart card complying with FIPS 201 safe from unauthorized data skimming. The Patriot Card holder features a durable impact resistant composite and can hold two cards […]

CertiPath has received additional cross-certification to the U.S. Federal Bridge for PIV-I level of assurance. PIV-I credentials enable non-Executive Branch federal employees and others to obtain a credential based on the same standards as the federally issued credentials. CertiPath is the only commercial bridge certificate authority to be cross-certified to PIV-I. With cross-certification to PIV-I […]

NXP Semiconductors India is predicting significant mid to long-term growth for contactless ID technology, according to mydigitalfc.com. NXP says that complex and rapidly changing needs in the identification industry will spur significant growth in the use of contactless smart cards, which have nearly three times the life of traditional contact cards. This advantage will eventually […]

By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines LLC, CSCIP Identity will continue to occupy a prime position in the minds of entrepreneurs, the C-suite, IT and security professionals, regulators, Jane and General Doe. And while some people are waiting for the next revision of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and the Federal Identity, Credentialing and […]

By Steve Howard, vice president of credentials, CertiPath It took the U.S. Federal Government more than six years to get behind FIPS 201 and figure out how to make it real – but it’s finally here. The market is seeing millions of PIV cards and there’s a whole lot to get excited about. The overarching […]