Article Highlights: Company’s new, dual-interface smart cards for FIPS-201 physical and logical access control deployments are also on the GSA-approved product list. Credential is available as a traditional PIV-I credential for government use or as a CIV credential for a wide variety of current and emerging commercial applications.
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When the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed the FIPS 201 standard, the government was using Wiegand wire, magnetic stripe, proximity or barcode credentials as part of their physical access control systems (PACS). Each of these technologies could be easily duplicated, making it virtually impossible to distinguish between a government-issued or forged credential.
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