2009年12月16日星期三

atsec advice aegis - atsec conducts testing with charismathics’ CSSI middleware in aboriginal NIST PIV Program (NPIVP) SP800-73-2 PIV Middleware Validation

Austin, TX - atsec advice aegis is appreciative to advertise that it has performed the aboriginal PIV Middleware Validation testing beneath the NIST PIV Program (NPIVP) for the afresh appear SP800-73-2 giving the interfaces for Personal Identity Verification.

The affidavit for the acknowledged validation – of the charismathics Smart Security Interface PIV, Version 2.1.0.9 (certificate no. 12) – was issued on October 23rd and can be begin on the Middleware Validation List on the NPIVP website.

csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/piv/npivp/validation_lists/SP800...

Apostol Vassilev, Laboratory Manager for atsec’s CST lab, commented: "atsec succeeded to complete auspiciously the aboriginal PIV Middleware validation testing according to NIST's SP 800-73-2. Being the aboriginal class to plan beneath this new accepted carries a lot of challenges and hidden costs consistent from the changes in the ambit of testing and the agnate tools. I am actual appreciative that atsec managed to acknowledge to these challenges with accomplishment and charge to efficiency. We were able to not alone bear a abundant acknowledgment of investment to our applicant but aswell to abutment NIST in convalescent the all-embracing validation action for the SP 800-73-2 accepted - a mark of arete by a accurate industry leader."

“atsec did an accomplished job in alive with NIST in accomplishing the validation of our CSSI PIV middleware,” said Sven Gossel, CEO of charismathics. “charismathics’ CSSI PIV middleware is the aboriginal to accomplish the SP 800-73-2 acceptance and atsec was key to authoritative this a success. Having the SP 800-73-2 acceptance continues the cardinal accession of our CSSI middleware as the arch PKI middleware solution.”
The new appropriate advertisement is an adapted abstruse blueprint for claimed character analysis (PIV) cards that are accepting phased in by U.S. federal departments and agencies for use by their advisers and contractors and is the aboriginal above amend back 2006 and is apprenticed by HSPSD#12 (The Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 “Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors”).
atsec activated the PIV middleware in accordance with: the Derived Test Requirements (DTR) and Test Assertions (TA) in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-85A-1 PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP 800-73-2 Compliance).

NPVIP accurate the PIV middleware to be accordant to: NIST Special Publication 800-73-2 Interfaces or Personal Identity Verification, Part 3: End-Point PIV Client Application Programming Interface.

atsec’s labs are accepted and accountant in the U.S. by the National Voluntary Laboratory Program (NVLAP) and operates laboratories with analysis scopes for the NIST PIV Program (NPIVP), as able-bodied as for Cryptographic Module testing (according to FIPS 140-2), algorithm validations and SCAP acquiescence testing.

atsec aswell is an accepted class for the GSA FIPS 201 Evaluation Program which runs a artefact approval affairs for PIV accompanying articles destined for the U.S. Government market.

About atsec advice security
atsec advice aegis is an independent, standards-based advice technology aegis casework aggregation that combines a business-oriented access to advice aegis with all-embracing abstruse ability and all-around experience. atsec was founded in Munich (Germany) in 2000 and has all-encompassing all-embracing operations with offices in the U.S., Germany, Sweden and China.
atsec offers appraisal and testing casework arch to academic acceptance for IT aegis including appraisal beneath Common Criteria schemes in the U.S., Germany, and Sweden; cryptographic bore and algorithm testing beneath the Cryptographic Module Validation Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. and Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) in Canada; and acquiescence validation to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
atsec aswell offers defended cipher review, ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS consulting, and assimilation testing and scanning services.
atsec works with arch all-around companies such as IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Cray, BMW, SGI, Vodafone, Swisscom, RWE, and Wincor-Nixdorf.

About charismathics
charismathics is a all-around baton in character administration software. Its arch product, the charismathics Smart Security Interface (CSSI), makes it cost-effective and simple for enterprises to accommodate assorted affidavit solutions into a single, cellophane interface. Since 2003, charismathics has pioneered the acreage of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), introducing the aboriginal PKI applicant to abutment Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) and the aboriginal PKI applicant to abutment pre-boot environments. charismathics offers aegis articles and PKI consulting in a array of industries including cyberbanking and finance, healthcare, telecommunications, security, government and PC manufacturing. For added information, appointment www.charismathics.com.

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