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Bell ID gets FIPS201 Approval

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Bell ID’s ANDiS4FIPS201 Card & Application Management solution has been placed on the GSA Approved Products List in recognition of its compliance with the FIPS 201: Electronic Personalization standard.

ANDiS4FIPS201 has been tested and approved as an electronic card personalization product which generates and loads mandatory and optional objects to a PIV Card, as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Bell ID’s ANDiS4FIPS201 offers U.S. government agencies a card and application management system enabling them to manage the life cycle of the card and the PIV application it holds. The ten different containers on the card are managed individually by ANDiS, enabling items with different lifecycles to be held on the same card. In addition, ANDiS4FIPS201 supports open source interfacing, which allows for swift and seamless integration with other components of the PIV card-issuing infrastructure. [end] 

The February meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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Digital camera manufacturer and custom imaging solution provider Lumenera Corp. has received GSA approval for its Lu375 USB 2.0 camera with Aware’s PreFace SDK to be used in FIPS 201-compliant PIV credentialing systems.

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Bell ID announced the launch of Bell ID Mobile Token Manager, a new software platform that provides over-the-air life cycle management of applications, cryptographic keys and secure elements NFC-enabled mobile devices.

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The April meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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Tom Bell offers expertise to campus card directors

Paraphrasing a famous comedian, Tom Bell says that campus card programs ‘get no respect.’ This is despite the fact that if a school’s card program were suddenly to go away, he believes the university would practically shut down.

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Key Source International announced GSA approval for it’s biometric keyboard and stand-alone biometric pod. KSI products are approved under FIPS 201 for Federal Employees and civilian contractors.

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