Last week, I was at the 7th Annual Smart Card in Government Conference and had the  opportunity to join a panel on “Personal Identity Verification (PIV) – Technologies” and presented a session entitled “Managing PIV Lifecycle and Converging Physical and Logical Access Control” with emphasis on implementing HSPD-12/FIPS-201 mandates.  I thoroughly enjoyed my participation in the conference, particularly the overwhelming  Smartcard and Biometric interests  from US Federal Govt organization, Law enforcement, Defence agencies and from other countries as well.

It is quite compelling to note,  the conference gave a big boost to FIPS-201 specfications that has become

Source: GSA USAccess

the de-facto standard for Identity credentialing for Govt. Employee ID, First Responder Credentials, Airport/Transportation worker credentials, Electronic Passports (ePassports) and  also sets the standards for acquiring and incorporating Demographic data, PKI/certificates and Biometrics for enabling Physical and Logical access control.

During my presence, I had quite a lot of conversations with participants for Govt agencies,  SIs and ISVs about implementing FIPS-201/PIV solution and how to automate identity credentialing  and pre/post issuance processes and provisioning/de-provisiong credentails to Physical access control systems and Logical access control systems (SSO/Federation) and finally how to respond to managing and auditing those discrete processes.

Managing PIV Life-cycle

If you are curious to have my presentation slides, you may grab it here : Managing PIV Lifecycle and Converging Physical and Logical Access Control.

Enjoy.