Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

Technology and implementation hurdles remain for PIV card use

Thursday, May 17, 2007


By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor

Now that federal agencies are invested in the planned government-wide issuance of highly secure, interoperable smart card IDs, actually implementing the new system remains the biggest practical and technological hurdle.

“The card is only the first stage,” says Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance. “There’s a whole other phase – accessing the physical access control systems and integrating the smart card into the logical security and PKI infrastructure that many of the agencies operate.”

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