6,000 Police Officers, Staff, and Partners in the Criminal Justice System Use Smart Cards to Increase Security to Comply with Emerging National Standards

InfoSecurity Europe Trade Show, London, England - ActivCard Corp., a global provider of identity assurance solutions for secure remote access, single sign-on, enterprise access cards, and multi-channel identification and verification, today announced that police officers, staff and partner agencies from the Criminal Justice System within Hampshire Constabulary are using the ActivCardr Enterprise Access Card solution for integrated physical and logical access.

Hampshire Constabulary serves a population of over 1.8 million people and covers 1,500 square miles of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. By consolidating the user credentials onto a single, secure smart card, Hampshire Constabulary is able to dramatically improve IT security while reducing costs and increasing the productivity of its workforce. The 6,000 employees are also using ActivCard Single Sign-On to gain secure, seamless access to network resources. Implementing logical access controls also enables Hampshire Constabulary to comply with emerging standards and national police guidelines such as the Unified Police Security Architecture (UPSA) standard.

Hampshire Constabulary recognized that legacy usernames and passwords were difficult to manage and would not meet the requirements of the UPSA standard. In addition, the Constabulary needed to deploy a Record Management System to aid efficient operational policing while reviewing its security policies and business processes around network, remote, physical, and application access. By selecting identity assurance solutions from ActivCard, Hampshire Constabulary is able to manage the administration, issuance and revocation of credentials in a user-friendly manner and provide single sign-on capabilities to its key systems, including the Record Management System.

“Confidentiality, integrity and availability are critical goals and necessities to Hampshire Constabulary,” said Paul Harding, Force Information Security Officer of Hampshire Constabulary. “By deploying solutions from ActivCard, we are able to achieve those goals, resulting in an increase to our officer’s productivity, compliance with emerging security standards and a renewed focus on the service we provide to our community.”

“We were contacted by Hampshire Constabulary to determine a solution that could leverage their existing architecture and address certain issues and requirements as part of the force’s deployment of its Record Management System,” said Andy Bryars of Cygnus, an ActivCard reseller. “ActivCard has a thorough set of identity assurance solutions that met the needs of Hampshire Constabulary.”

“Our identity assurance solutions are solving real problems for first responders such as Hampshire Constabulary,” said Marc Hudavert, vice president and general manager of ActivCard Europe. “By working closely with our reseller, Cygnus, ActivCard delivered direct benefits to Hampshire Constabulary, including increased security and productivity while demonstrating compliance, ultimately resulting in better service and satisfaction for the community.”

About ActivCard ActivCard is a global provider of identity assurance solutions that, when integrated into an identity management system, allow customers to issue, use and manage trusted digital identities. ActivCard’s solutions include secure remote access, single sign-on, enterprise access cards, and multi-channel identification and verification. Globally, over seven million users at corporations, government agencies, and financial institutions use ActivCard solutions to safely and efficiently interact electronically. Headquartered in Fremont, Calif., ActivCard has development centers in the US, France, and the United Kingdom and sales and service centers in more than nine countries. For more information, visit www.activcard.com.