Smart Employee ID for Personal Identity Verification (PIV)

For government agencies seeking to comply with the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, ActivIdentity provides a Smart Employee ID solution that allows organizations to issue, use and manage Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards in compliance with the FIPS 201 standard issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The solution includes the ActivIdentity market-leading ActivClient® middleware and ActivID™ Card Management System (CMS), and provides out-of-the-box support for multiple Smart Cards, Certificate Authorities, Directories, Digital Signatories, Identity Management Systems (IDMS), Identity Registration and Proofing Systems (IDRPS), Card Production Facilities (CPS) and Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) for a complete end-to-end HSPD-12 solution.

With ActivIdentity Smart Employee ID for PIV, agencies ensure that their compliance investment provides an identity assurance infrastructure that will support the new identity applications they need in the future such as strong authentication as well as secure information and transactions.

What is PIV?

Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) was announced by the White House on August 27, 2004 to address the problem of inconsistent and potentially insecure forms of identification that have been used to access Federal buildings and information systems. The goals are to increase security, reduce identity fraud and to increase efficiencies within the government.

The FIPS 201 standard from NIST provides the structure needed for Federal agencies to realize the critical security vision established in HSPD 12, and specifies smart cards as the device that will be used to implement this vision. FIPS 201 is comprised of two parts:

• Personal Identity Verification (PIV)-I describes the minimum requirements for a system that meets the control and security objectives including the identity proofing process.
• Personal Identity Verification (PIV)-II provides detailed technical specifications to support the control and security objectives in PIV-I and the details for technical interoperability of PIV cards with the authentication, access control, and management systems across the Federal Government.

ActivIdentity PIV support

The ActivIdentity Smart Employee ID for PIV solution supports the PIV-II specifications and enables government agencies to comply to the HSPD-12 mandate and use the PIV cards for their current and future security applications, such as:

• Strong Authentication to IT resources via strong authentication for remote access, workstation and network access, application access.
• Secure information and transactions via secure e-mails and documents, file and disk encryption, signed transactions, and secure auditing.
• Secure access to facilities using standardized PIV data structures and contactless smart card technology.