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The PIV Resource Portal site is derived from numerous real world implementations and provides free information and resources to help agencies accelerate the adoption of PIV technologies regardless of budget constraints. The topics range from high level strategic planning to low level cryptography software development.


Verify PIV Card Usage

Need to know whether someone is accessing your domain with username and password versus PIV smart card? Here's a look at some manual and automated steps to know exactly how users are accessing your domain. Click to view.



This whitepaper describes a low cost strategy for beginning the implementation of PIV technologies. Click to download.

This whitepaper provides guidance to help prepare end users for using their PIV card. Click to download.



Focused on end user education, this whitepaper provides a high level, easy to understand depiction of what data the PIV card stores. Click to download



Describes free tools, document references and lessons learned for enabling computer logon with a PIV card. Click to download

 

Tutorial on how to utilize free, open source software to achieve PIV single sign on. Focuses on improving the end user experience and reducing operational costs.



Tutorial focused on using the PIV card for biometric authentication. Focuses on how agencies can implement biometrics to secure sensitive applications.