March 16, 2009—Hirsch Electronics, a leading supplier of access control and security management solutions, announced that its Professional Services Group has developed a solution for verifying digital identity certificates by integrating both its Velocity Security Management System and RUU Verification Station with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201-enabling technology from CoreStreet, a leading provider of credential validation solutions.
The integration allows smart card-based identity credentials—such as the US government’s Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card—to be verified not only during a spot check at a verification station, but also in an ongoing, near real-time implementation of an access control system using registered credentials.
Hirsch traditionally sells through a dealer/installer channel, but several years ago the company responded to market demands for convergence and interoperability of access control systems into the IT infrastructure by creating a business unit to deliver professional services.
Hirsch and CoreStreet are both leaders in applying Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology with trusted identity cards that contain secure certificates for use by logical and physical access control systems. The integrated solution from Hirsch allows a physical access control system to grant access to a cardholder at a door based on a set of authorization rules. For instance, a rule can be enforced that the server database must confirm the status of the card’s certificate with the appropriate validation authorities using the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) standard. Thus, cardholders with revoked certificates are denied access.
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