Gemplus has launched SafesITe Government, its ID management system designed to help US Federal agencies comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-12.
HSPD-12
Issued by US President Bush on August 27, 2004, HSPD-12 requires that all Federal executive departments and agencies issue ‘secure and reliable forms of identification’ to employees and contractors for physical access to all Federally controlled facilities and logical access to Federally controlled information systems during 2005. To help agencies prepare for future compliance with HSPD-12, Gemplus says it has assembled, pre-integrated, tested, and packaged its core products with those from identity management and security vendors, resulting in SafesITe Government. This smart card-based identity management system allows systems integrators to concentrate, the firm says, on their core capabilities: integration and delivery of the total identity management solution. SafesITe Government includes Gemplus’s smart cards, readers, personalisation, issuance, and professional services, as well as applets, desktop, and card management system software from Dreifus and Associates, LITRONIC/SAFLINK, and Bell ID. The integrated system allows Federal agencies to enrol employees, personalise and issue smart ID badges, as well as update and manage the badges post-issuance.
What they say
"Gemplus understands the budgetary, scheduling, and compatibility challenges involved in implementing a large-scale ID system and has strategically chosen the industry’s best ID management technologies and packaged them with our core products to interchangeably meet the US government’s needs," said Dave Ludin, Vice-President of Gemplus’s ID & Security business unit in North America. "Already selected within a large Federal smart ID program deployment, SafesITe Government offers government primes and system integrators a flexible and compliant solution that mitigates complexity and risk."
