The federal government still has work to do with the common secure credential, namely ensuring that the cards are read electronically in all federal buildings, but it has already issued tens of ...

Millions of U.S. government employees and contractors have been issued a secure smart ID card that enables physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and provides access to government ...

Federal personal identification verification cards ­— better known as PIV cards — are about to get a technical facelift. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, has released ...

Existing government-issued smart cards close but not entirely PIV Some agencies have been issuing smart cards for employee identification for some time. For example, the Department of Defense (DoD) ...

For decades, PIV and CAC cards have been the primary tools for agencies and contractors to verify the identity of employees and contractors. The COVID-19 outbreak could change that.

In order to aid organizations with the physical access control system (PACS) aspect of the implementation, the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council released a new white paper today ...

He's the CEO of Certipath, a company intimately involved in real government identity cards. Topics Spotlight: Solving Data Analytics Challenges; News; Newsletters; Events; Resources; ...

The U.S. government is studying the viability of a shared technology and services infrastructure to help agencies issue new Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to all employees and ...

Large capacity card provides storage for additional apps and legacy support for physical access CardTech/SecurTech 2006, SAN FRANCISCO - Axalto (www.axalto.com), the world's leading provider of ...

Sept. 11, 2001, forever changed the U.S. government’s posture toward security. For integrators working in the physical access control space, those attacks exposed the wide variations in the ...

The updated standards for civilian government personal identity verification, or PIV, cards will focus on using the PIV card, as a launching point for verifying identity on smartphones and other ...

Today it is at the center of efforts to ensure that employees receiving the new Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards are who they claim to be. Speaking to the HSPD-12 FIPS-201 Federal ID Smart ...