HSPD-12, a directive from the US President mandating a common identification standard for all federal government agency employees and contractors and, FIPS 201, a new standard released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have changed the landscape in the identity world.
HSPD-12 established deadlines for adoption of the new identification mandate. As promptly as possible, but in no case later than eight months after the release of the standard, or by October 2005, executive departments and agencies are required to use the standard for identification issued to federal employees and contractors to be used for both physical access to federally controlled facilities and logical access to federally controlled information systems.
FIPS 201 is a new government-wide reliable Personal Identification Verification (PIV) for government employees and contractors.
SCB Solutions' offering for the federal government
SCB Solutions, with its headquarters a stone's throw away from the Mall in Washington, DC, is ideally situated to help federal agencies and their contractors deploy this challenging project. By having already integrated the most secure and the most interoperable smart card platform in its SCB Access security application, SCB Solutions is in the ideal position to propose a meaningful and efficient deployment of logical access solutions for the government.
SCB Solutions offers to the agencies
Consulting services: PIV deployment will be a major project in every agency requiring unprecedented coordination between Human Resources, Security and IT.
Multos smart cards.
Single Sign-On with SCB Access™.
Implications for the Identification World
FIPS 201 provides a framework for local government and any corporation that requires secure identification.
It provides a solid unified standard that can be adopted by local governments or by any corporation that requires strong identification of its employees.
SCB Solutions can help you to define a system that will take advantage of this new standard but will still keep in mind the size of your organization.
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