HSPD-12 Integration |
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DoD – PIV /CAC Card Integration
There is generally greater awareness and acceptance for the desire and need to combine the logical access and physical access functions of major organizations. Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) is a Presidential requirement signed on August 27, 2004 requiring Federal agencies comply with mandatory, government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification for Federal employees and contractors. These Personal Identification Verification (PIV) standards (FIPS 201.1) are issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and are designed to increase facility and computer security, reduce identity fraud, protect the personal privacy of those issued government identification, and ensure a safer work environment for all Federal employees and contractors. With over 3.1 million active cards, civilian and military bodies will employ the use of either a PIV (personal Identification Verification) or CAC (Common Access Card) card to gain entry to facilities and then authenticate to computer systems and networks. In order to help these agencies and departments in complying, SecureDoc full-disk encryption from WinMagic ensures protection of sensitive information stored on desktops, and laptops. Offering single or multiple factor pre-boot authentication (including password, USB tokens, biometrics, TPM and PKI), SecureDoc acts as your last line of defense before access can gained computing systems. SecureDoc leverages your token at-boot thereby protecting all applications -VPN, network logon, emails, etc with your token as outlined in the initiative for HSPD-12 and FIPS 201. |
