On February 28, 2012 the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council and Access Control Council released two new resources for individuals and organizations
looking for more education on Personal Identity Verification (PIV),
PIV-Interoperable (PIV-I), and Commercial Identity Verification (CIV)
credentials. The white paper, ”
PIV-Interoperable Credential Case Studies,” and the brief, ”
A Comparison of PIV, PIV-I and CIV Credentials” are available for free download on the
Smart Card Alliance website.
A
variety of organizations, including large corporations, consulting
firms, and state and local governments, are all beginning to deploy
PIV-I solutions. The white paper, ”PIV-Interoperable Credential Case Studies”
is one of the first efforts to document and share information about
these PIV-I deployments. The white paper profiles PIV-I projects for the
following organizations: Booz Allen Hamilton; SAIC; XTec Incorporated;
and the Commonwealth of Virginia. The case studies outline:
- How and why each organizations chose to establish an identity program using the PIV-I credential
- Best practices and lessons learned for deployment
- Realized benefits of each PIV-I credentialing project
“An increasing number of commercial, off-the-shelf physical, logical,
and mobile enterprise applications support PIV and PIV-I authentication
methods, so it is easier and more cost-effective than ever for
organizations to deploy a PIV-I solution,” said Randy Vanderhoof,
executive director of the Smart Card Alliance. “Because these PIV-I case
studies are the first enterprise deployments outside of first responder
use cases, we thought it was critically important to document their
progress in this white paper for other organizations to use as a
resource.”
For more general education on PIV, PIV-I and CIV credentials, the Smart Card Alliance has created the brief, ”A Comparison of PIV, PIV-I and CIV Credentials.”
Presented as a table, the brief compares the policies, processes and
technical features of the three types of credentials. It shows how the
policy and process around PIV and PIV-I enable the interoperability and
trust of the credential, while the CIV credential definition was
developed to define a commercial credential that could take advantage of
the PIV infrastructure.
LINK TO SCA DOCUMENTS