Sagem Orga GmbH - Sagem Orga and MorphoTrak Approved as Official Source for PIV Products for the U.S. Government

Paderborn / Alexandria, Virginia, June 8 2009 – Sagem Orga and MorphoTrak (both SAFRAN Group) advertise the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 201 (FIPS 201) approval of solutions for the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Program.

The General Services Administration (GSA)-approved articles cover acute cards and readers that amuse aegis standards of the U.S. Government PIV program. With the GSA certification, Sagem Orga and MorphoTrak are now an official antecedent of PIV acute cards, PIV analytic and concrete acceptance readers, as able-bodied as arrangement architect and matcher for federal agencies and added organizations appropriate to attach to the FIPS 201 standard.

The purpose of the PIV agenda is to ensure a high-level of aegis for acceptance to U.S. Federal Government buildings, servers and software applications. Sagem Orga’s PIV cards may be purchased by federal agencies to accede with the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) to affair a secure, interoperable acute agenda absolute biometric data, cryptographic keys and alone identifiable advice about the cardholder.

“The accomplishing of the PIV agenda provides a defended adjustment of acceptance the cardholder’s character while attention privacy. It replaces beneath defended badges and reduces the accident of aegis breaches while attention assets and accouterment government advisers with a defended arrangement login and controlled acceptance to federal buildings,” explains Didier Sérodon, Chief Technology Officer at Sagem Orga.

The accumulated offerings of Sagem Orga and MorphoTrak accommodate the US Federal Government with amount technology to accommodated the HSPD 12 requirements and accomplish them leaders a allotment of HSPD 12 band-aid providers.

See fips201ep.cio.gov/apl.php for the GSA Approved Products List.

Sagem Orga
Sagem Orga is a all-around baton in the acute agenda industry. Its portfolio includes hardware, software, consulting and services, all focused on acute cards for the telecommunications, health, identification and cyberbanking sectors. As a accessory of Sagem Sécurité (SAFRAN Group), the world's No. 1 in identification, Sagem Orga offers absolute chip solutions advised to defended the agenda and adaptable community. The aggregation has a workforce of over 2,100 humans about the apple and assembly accessories accumulation the latest technology in Germany, Brazil, Russia, Mexico and India.
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Mareike Blumentrath
Communications Manager
Corporate Communications

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