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 ...

The General Services Administration could do a better job of monitoring data from personal identity verification access card reader systems at the facilities it manages on behalf of the federal ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has set ground rules for how to use Personal Identity Verification cards so employees can use them to enter government buildings. Borrowing a ...

The U.S. government has determined the standards for a single identification verification card to replace the multitude of badges government workers must use today to gain access to facilities. A ...

The U.S. Department of Education is rolling out desktop encryption software in a way that links the cryptographic process to employees’ government-issued Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart ...

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 quality ...

Specifications for cryptographic algorithms and keys for use on smart government ID cards are being updated to better align them with Federal Information Processing Standards and to extend the use of ...

Draft guidelines have been released to help agencies verify that organizations issuing new governmentwide identification cards are up to the job. Draft guidelines have been released to help agencies ...

Government reports and projects may sometimes seem to be abstruse and expensive uses of taxpayer resources with limited relevance for the private sector. However, much of the work published for free ...

The new contract is designed to evolve the service into a next-generation, modular architecture enabling identity proofing, ...

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 ...