CertiPath Demonstrates Use of High-Assurance Credentials for Physical Access Control at TSCP Business Week Expo

HERNDON, Va., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- CertiPath, the trusted credentialing authority, will demonstrate various uses for high-assurance, PKI-based physical access control systems at this month's Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) Business Week Expo. The demonstration will hinge on an effective, single-credential system that secures physical and logical assets, improves productivity, reduces cost and reduces risk.

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"TSCP's Business Week Expo is a venue for TSCP members to showcase existing and future secure information sharing capabilities for the aerospace and defense community," said Keith Ward, TSCP chairman.  "Participating companies are the backbone of secure collaboration and the foundation of the public-private partnership. These companies are reducing the risk of Advanced Persistent Threat while keeping overall program costs in control."

High-assurance identity credentials represent a common, interoperable security technology – aligning with TSCP's mission to establish and maintain an open, standards-based framework for secure collaboration and assured information sharing between parties.  Recent technology advancements, combined with significant demand from the US government, have propelled these credentials into a new area: Physical Access Control Systems (PACS).

"There's a tremendous business benefit to organizations that apply the same kind of high-assurance identity management to their physical assets as they do to their logical assets," said Jeff Nigriny, president of CertiPath. "CertiPath's model makes it possible for customers, partners and suppliers to collaborate by ensuring that on-premise employees, consultants, contractors and mobile workforces can gain access to the appropriate facilities and systems."

Other benefits of Physical PKI Authentication include:

• Interoperable and reusable technical mechanisms between government and industry. TSCP has strived to achieve "one-badge" capability for identity management programs in a way that provides compatibility between both government and industrial entities. The same identity credential, whether issued by industry or government, can be used in any TSCP member's compliant relying party application, for either logical or physical access.  
• Improved security though the addition of intelligence nodes on the situational awareness network. Having a single identity credential across all applications provides significant security benefits. Each application is an intelligence node on a computer network, with its own logging. Using the same unique credential identifier provides a means to correlate the logs that provide situational awareness.

At the first ever TSCP Business Week Expo, CertiPath will highlight the use of PIV, PIV-C (PIV-I if available), DoD CAC and TWIC credentials in a single PACS.  During the demonstration, attendees will be able to interact with the PACS and see the way the applet works with an actual door reader.

For more information on Trusted PACS and CertiPath's participation in TSCP, please visit CertiPath online at http://www.certipath.com.

About CertiPath

CertiPath provides the aerospace and defense industry's only public key infrastructure (PKI)-based communications bridge where information can be shared widely, securely, effectively and affordably between partners, suppliers and customers – regardless of the size and scope of the supply chain.

CertiPath's solution tears down the burdensome and costly company, employee and program-centric approaches to identity assurance.  Today, organizations in the U.S., U.K. and Europe including Boeing, BAE Systems, EADS, Lockheed Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and the U.S. Federal Bridge (FBCA) are members of this fast-growing community.  For more information, visit CertiPath on the web at http://www.certipath.com

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About TSCP

TSCP is the only global government-industry partnership specifically focused on designing solutions to address the most critical issues facing the A&D industry: mitigating the compliance, complexity, cost and IT security risks inherent in large-scale, multi-national collaborative programs. TSCP was founded in 2002, and has delivered several specifications and guidance documents on securing A&D supply chain data. The group today focuses on identity federation policies and governance. TSCP is open to government organizations, prime contractors, integrators, suppliers and member trade groups. For more information, please visit www.tscp.org.

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