Identive Physical Access Control Terminal Achieves Certipath ICAM Certification

Identive Group, Inc. announced that its PACT 1241 physical access control terminal has been approved for the Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) Certified Products List (CPL) of CertiPath, a leading independent provider of identity assurance services. This certification signifies to federal, state and local government agencies that Identive’s PACT 1241 reader has undergone rigorous testing for compliance with the recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as laid out in NIST SP 800-116.

The reader was tested in a number of authentication modes and demonstrated its ability to correctly and faithfully work with government-issued Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and PIV-I credentials, using both the contact and contactless interfaces of these cards.

“To comply with federal mandates, agencies at the national, state and local level are deploying PIV and PIV-I credentials for physical access authentication, extending their current use for secure network logon and cyber access. Approval for the CertiPath CPL identifies the PACT 1241 as a trusted product for use with these highly secure credentials, and in particular to support the management of both network and physical access with a single set of electronic credentials, or PKI at the door,” said John Menzel, vice president Access Control ID Solutions for Identive.

Monitor Dynamics, a provider of Unified Security Management Solutions to the U.S. federal government, unifies Identive’s PACT 1241 reader into its FICAM Platform for FIPS 201 PACS compliance to support all authentication modes up to and including two-factor PIV-I authentication – enabling the delivery of PKI at the reader for validation across the Federal Bridge. The combined solution recently won the Platinum Award for Best Government Access Control System from Security Products Magazine test labs and GovSec Government Security Conference Judges.

“Unifying Identive’s PACT readers into the Trusted FICAM Platform allows us to offer all government organizations an accelerated path to compliance with a turn-key FIPS-201 approved CAK authentication system, capable of reading PIV and PIV-I credentials out of the box. This proven combination is currently operating at numerous DoD installations across the U.S. and is scheduled for additional new implementations throughout the year,” said Troy Paddock, president of Monitor Dynamics.