Department of Commerce Awards XTec PIV-Interoperable Credentialing Contract -- Security Today

Department of Commerce Awards XTec PIV-Interoperable Credentialing Contract

Sep 22, 2016

XTec Incorporated announced that the Department of Commerce awarded it a contract to provide PIV-Interoperable identity credentials. The Department will use XTec’s AuthentX PIV-I Service for the issuance of interoperable credentials to Department of Commerce personnel ineligible for PIV credentials. The award includes support for enrollment and issuance workstations, the hosted PIV-I service and onsite training.

“We are happy to add the Department of Commerce to our PIV-I service which is now supplementing several federal agencies’ credentialing efforts,” said Albert Fernandez, XTec’s President and CEO. “we continue to see the need for secure, interoperable identity credentials in both the federal and commercial space.”

XTec provides services for the entire identity and credential lifecycle for HSPD-12 Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials, PIV-Interoperable (PIV-I) credentials and Derived PIV credentials. In addition to providing the technical solutions, XTec also supports all pieces of the identity, credential and access control lifecycle from cardstock to enrollment, credential issuance, maintenance, logical and physical access control as well as mobile usage.

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