The National Institute of Standards and Technology released two special publications related to personal identity verification (PIV) cards at the end of last week. The first is a full release of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The TSA is renowned for rejecting perfectly valid IDs. For instance, in early September, a TSA worker rejected a valid REAL ID because of a mistake made by the U.S. state of Maine, which produced ...

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 ...