The HSPD-12 Consortium is comprised of nine information security companies. The Consortium will provide assurance
of compliance and of interoperability between the many components required to meet the mandate including smartcards,
PKI, middleware, card credential management system, biometrics and a physical access system.
The participating "Founding Member" companies and their HSPD-12 compliant component are:

For over 20 years, SafeNet has been an industry leader in providing security solutions to government and commercial
entities that safeguard communications, intellectual property, and digital identities. Our FIPS Level 3-certified
400 Smart Card meets the core requirements of HSPD-12 by providing security, authentication, identity verification,
trust, and privacy for both physical and logical access. Plus, by using your PIV-2 compliant credentials with other
SafeNet security solutions, you can protect your infrastructure and extend your capabilities to provide disk/file/folder
encryption, remote access, endpoint integrity, and document control. SafeNet provides the most complete solution for
HSPD-12 and for your evolving enterprise security landscape.
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Founded in 1986, Consul risk management is an authority in security audit and compliance. Consul provides policy-based
user monitoring solutions to track, report on and investigate non-compliant behavior, such as unauthorized activity
by administrators and other privileged users. The Consul InSight™ Suite automates the process of enterprise-wide log
collection, privileged user monitoring, behavioral forensics and compliance reporting. One of the industry’s first
solutions addressing the intersection of audit and policy compliance efforts with information security and operational
risk, InSight Suite helps hundreds of organizations worldwide automatically monitor, report on and investigate
malicious and accidental violations, in order to demonstrate compliance to regulations and company policy.
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As mandated by FIPS 201, Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) must provide Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
for certificate validation. Doing so requires a Validation Authority and a distributed network of responders.
CoreStreet’s Validation Authority has been deployed by the US Department of Defense and other large government
agencies worldwide for digital certificate validation in a wide variety of applications. Organizations looking for maximum
performance and availability from an OCSP responder can deploy the keyless, security hardened Responder Appliance
2400 locally in their facility. CoreStreet also provides secure ID checking of FIPS 201-compliant credentials with
its PIVMAN System, which consists of server software and handheld devices.
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Entrust has been a trusted supplier of PKI and information security solutions to the US Federal government for over
ten years, serving the Department of Treasury, State, Energy and Justice among many others. Entrust is now offering
agencies the ability to realize the benefits of this market-leading PKI technology without having to manage the
infrastructure through the Entrust Managed Services Shared Service Provider solution.
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Forum Systems provides hardware and software products for threat protection, identity management and trusted
information sharing using Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. Forum's security solutions protect
the dissemination, distribution and collaboration of content while complying with government Information Assurance
mandates such as HSPD-12. Forum Sentry(tm) SOA Gateway governs message-level authentication, access control,
mediation, content inspection, provisioning, XML encryption, and WS-Security policies. Native integration includes:
IBM WebSphere, Tivoli Access Manager, HP OpenView, CA SiteMinder, CA WSDM, HP SOA Manager, Tibco Rendezvous,
Microsoft Active Directory, Oracle Fusion middleware and security.Forum Sentry Appliance the most government
certified in its category with FIPS 140-2,DoD PKI and Common Criteria EAL-4+.
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MyID® for PIV is a comprehensive smart card and identity credential management system designed by Intercede to
help US Federal Government agencies meet HSPD 12 and comply with the PIV card issuance processes defined in FIPS 201.
Using MyID for PIV’s easy-to-use, roles-based interface agencies can securely enroll applicants, graphically
personalize PIV certified cards, deploy GSC-IS applets and PKI certificates, capture and load biometric data, manage
cryptographic keys and efficiently issue combined contact and contactless PIV ID cards.
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OMNIKEY, one of the world´s leading manufacturers of innovative smart card readers, offers the most diversified
PC-linked reader portfolio. The readers are implemented in numerous applications including logical access control,
digital signature, and many more. Worldwide distribution is handled through a global partner network, including
VARs, system integrators, and OEMs. OMNIKEY has a proven track record of supplying high quality smartcard readers
to the US Federal government. OMNIKEY offers the HSPD-12 market USB and PC Card readers fully compliant with ISO
7816 as well as USB Dual Interface readers fully compliant with ISO 7816 and ISO 14443 A/B.
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Probaris develops and markets Probaris SP/PIV -- the leading software platform for managing personal identity
verification (PIV) processes. Probaris SP/PIV offers the most sophisticated security and identity management
features available today. Unique among the products available in the secure credential issuance market, Probaris
SP/PIV provides a feature-rich business process management (BPM) system, and a credential issuance identity
management system (IDMS) in a single software platform – complete with pre-configured processes for credential
issuance, reissuance, revocation, and termination. Probaris SP/PIV enforces separation of roles and provides for
automatic generation of unique identification numbers for PIV credentials making it a natural fit for the
Government's HSPD-12 and e-Authentication requirements.
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Precise Biometrics, a leading supplier of user-friendly biometric security solutions, offers the Precise 250 MC
reader for the HSPD-12 market. The Precise 250 MC is a combination smart card and fingerprint biometric reader that
provides strong two-factor security for IT applications. Precise Biometrics is committed to the strongest biometric
protection utilizing our Precise Match-on-CardTM technology that conducts all processing within the secure smart
card environment. In the HSPD-12 market
Precise Biometrics is offering an ANSI 378 Match-on-Card application, which meets the NIST requirements of keeping
both the biometric template and PIN from being transferred into the open for strong secure identity verification.
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