HID Global, a secure identity solutions company, announced its pivCLASS 4.0 Government Solutions portfolio has been selected by Government Security News as the winner of the 2013 Homeland Security Award for Best Integrated System for HSPD-12 / FIPS-201 Compliance. The Homeland Security Awards annually recognize the top IT security and physical security solutions dedicated to protect federal, state, county and municipal government agencies.
HID Global, a secure identity solutions company, announced its pivCLASS 4.0 Government Solutions portfolio has been selected by Government Security News as the winner of the 2013 Homeland Security Award for Best Integrated System for HSPD-12 / FIPS-201 Compliance. The Homeland Security Awards annually recognize the top IT security and physical security solutions dedicated to protect federal, state, county and municipal government agencies.
“As the industry's first comprehensive FIPS-201 compliant solution for migrating access control systems to Personal Identity Verification (PIV), HID Global's pivCLASS portfolio is the only one of its kind to provide government agencies an end-to-end solution for using their PIV-enabled cards for public key infrastructure (PKI)-based physical access control,” said John Fenske, vice president of product marketing, Physical Access Control with HID Global. “The GSN Homeland Security Award is further evidence that pivCLASS provides essential tools to ensure government agencies are in compliance with FIPS-201 requirements by leveraging their existing access control system at the same time.”
As a key component of HID Global's Federal Identity offering, the award-winning pivCLASS 4.0 portfolio has successfully fulfilled the requirements of the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) comprehensive testing program, which ensures that the system is not prone denial of service, credential spoofing, or other types of unauthorized access.
HID Global's pivCLASS 4.0 Government Solutions portfolio is a GSA FICAM Certified validation system. Through a range of PIV registration, verification and readers, pivCLASS 4.0 supports credential verification of FIPS-201-based credentials (PIV, PIV-I, CIV, TWIC, FRAC, CAC) and physical access control registration into more than 30 different PACS head-end products.