PIV Power

The Power of PIV

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) has revolutionized the standards for secure digital identity. The standards and technologies of PIV have enabled a dramatic reduction in costs which is now enabling organizations to replace outdated and insecure password based systems with high assurance digital identification technologies. When properly implemented, organizations can implement the following to help increase security and reduce costs:

Smart Card Logon: Instead of using an insecure password that can be stolen or guessed, PIV can be used to access computing resources. This enables organizations to dramatically improve their security posture by eliminating passwords and leveraging advanced cryptographic operations for authentication.

Encryption: The process of protecting data with encryption has been cumbersome and misunderstood which results in data not being protected at all. With simple configurations, PIV can be utilized to seamlessly encrypt messages utilizing public key cryptography.

Message Signing: Today’s native email protocols provide no sender authenticity validation making impersonation an easy task for would be hackers. With PIV, messages can be digitally signed in a manner that provides assurance that the sender was in fact the sender and they were not impersonated.

Time and attendance: PIV utilizes a standard protocol for its contactless interface. Leveraging this element, organizations can replace outdated time and attendance systems with the PIV card to enable employees to check in and out much easier.

Biometric verification: For increased security, PIV utilized standard biometric templates that can be used as another factor in the authentication process. For extremely sensitive applications, the PIV biometrics can be easily used to prove the person’s identity.

Rapid Mobile Identification: The PIV card contains biographic data about the person which can be used in a mobile authentication transaction. For example, the card can be authentication with the person’s Personal Identification Number (PIN) which then can be used to provide information about the person to the relying party.

Single Sign On: Utilizing the ultra secure cryptography technologies from PIV, organizations can now implement secure single sign on mechanisms to reduce the end user authentication burden.

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