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HID Global Provides Credential Management System for PIV-I Managed Service Offered by Eid Passport, Inc.
[July 21, 2014]

HID Global Provides Credential Management System for PIV-I Managed Service Offered by Eid Passport, Inc.


AUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)--

HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today announced that it has teamed with Eid Passport®, Inc., a market leader in high-assurance identity management solutions and the largest commercial provider of vendor credentials at military facilities, to supply Eid Passport with its ActivID® Credential Management System (CMS) for Eid Passport's new Personal Identity Verification - Interoperable (PIV-I) managed service.

Eid Passport's service is targeted at commercial, government and military organizations that require the highest levels of identity assurance to secure sensitive physical and logical assets. Recently, the U.S. Navy awarded a contract to provide credentialing support for the Navy Commercial Access Control System (NCACS), its contractors, vendors, suppliers and service providers who seek entry to naval facilities. To meet the needs of the U.S. Navy and other customers for its PIV-I service, Eid Passport has worked with HID Advantage Partner Axiad IDS to integrate ActivID CMS into its service for secure provisioning of the cards.

"We look forward to working with Eid Passport, which is a Level 4 PIV-I issuer - the highest level of identity assurance possible," said Eric Widlitz, managing director of Identity and Access Management, North America with HID Global. "With the integration of HID Global's pivCLASS credentials and ActivID CMS with the Eid Passport's RAPIDGate Premier solution, Eid Passport is able to ensure that third parties working at high-security government installations have been thoroughly screened, vetted and issued a PIV-I credential before they arrive on site."



Provisioning the cards using HID Global's ActivID CMS makes it easy to define and apply policies to manage data, applets, and digital certificates across the entire lifecycle of a card. ActivID CMS is easily integrated into an existing security infrastructure, and can scale to millions of credentials in complex, distributed environments with multiple user groups.

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About HID Global

HID Global is the trusted source for innovative products, services, solutions, and know-how related to the creation, management, and use of secure identities for millions of customers around the world. The company's served markets include physical and logical access control, including strong authentication and credential management; card printing and personalization; visitor management systems; highly secure government and citizen ID; and identification RFID technologies used in animal ID and industry and logistics applications. The company's primary brands include ActivID®, EasyLobby®, FARGO®, IdenTrust®, LaserCard®, Lumidigm®, and HID®. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 2,200 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. For more information, visit http://www.hidglobal.com.

About Eid Passport

Eid Passport, Inc. (www.eidpassport.com) is a market leader in high-assurance identity management solutions in the United States. The company integrates leading-edge products and services into solutions that combine identity authentication, background screening, credentialing, and identity management. Eid Passport's flagship product offering, the RAPIDGate® program, provides highly secure gate-access-based facilities-such as military installations, government buildings, federal agencies, manufacturing and distribution sites, ports and commercial ports, and commercial buildings-with increased security and streamlined access for a variety of authorized personnel. Founded in November 2001, Eid Passport is headquartered in Hillsboro, Ore., with offices in Minot, N.D. and Alexandria, Va. RAPIDGate® and Eid Passport® are registered trademarks of Eid Passport, Inc.

® HID, the HID logo, and ActivID are trademarks or registered trademarks of HID Global in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks, service marks, and product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.


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