San Antonio — Monitor Dynamics, the trusted provider of unified security systems for Government and commercial enterprises today announced that it has been selected by CertiPath, the United States Federal Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Policy Authority’s partner for testing Personalentification Verification and Interoperability credentials (PIV‐I) used for physical and logical access control, to be the central physical access control system to be used for all certification testing. Monitor Dynamics’ Federalentity, Credential and Access Management (FICAM) Platform will be the first system with which all PIV‐I credentials must successfully operate.
Monitor Dynamics’ Trusted FICAM Platform gives civilian and defense agencies a robust, highassurance physical access control solution (PACS) that complies with NIST‐SP 800‐116, FIPS 201 and the DoD’s DTM 09‐012, which are the Government standards for PKI‐basedentity credentialing and access management. The Monitor Dynamics platform is proven to be conformant with PIV‐I, and was the first PACS product to earn certification on CertiPath’s Approved Vendor List, giving customers and partners peace of mind that the Trusted FICAM Platform is implementation‐ready to address the full range of physical protection requirements when accessing facilities and computer systems.
“There is a growing urgency for civilian and defense agencies to meet the mandates for secure and reliableentification for Government employees – and to achieve automated visitor and contractor‐level access control capabilities,” said Troy Paddock, president of Monitor Dynamics. “We are extremely pleased that our unified security platform will be a part of the framework by which all PIVI performance will be measured from this point forward. “
At the heart of the FICAM platform is Monitor Dynamics’ SAFEnet Unified Security Management Software which blends the critical components necessary to manage and monitor multisite facilities from a central location, including access control, intrusion detection, video surveillance andentity. Utilizing the CertiPath PKI bridge and high‐assurance fabric, which interoperates with the Federal PKI bridge, the Trusted FICAM Platform unifies industry leading technologies to deliver it’s capability. These include the CoreStreet F5 hardware from ActivIdentity, which assures that the credential is valid using PKI infrastructure during time‐of‐access at the door and the PIV‐enabled three factor (card, PIN and biometric), FIPS 201 compliant readers from Veridt.
Real‐World Testing Ensures Interoperability Until now, methodologies have focused solely on testing and certifying off‐the‐shelf PACS solutions at the component level, rather than evaluating systems as they would operate in a real world environment – as part of an integrated and sophisticated system of solutions and protocols.
“As civilian and defense agencies move quickly to adopt PKI‐based integrated physical access control systems, there’s a critical need for credential issuers to demonstrate interoperability and performance in the environments in which they would actually be used, ” said Jeff Nigriny, president of Va.‐based CertiPath. “We are pleased to have the Monitor Dynamics’ platform serve as the first example of an integrated and sophisticated system of convergedentity, security and data integrity solutions that will ensure that ‐ by every standard and compliance measure – the keys to the systems perform as required in a high‐assurance trusted environment.”
Credential issuers that have applied at the PIV‐I level of assurance include such industry leading global organizations as Citibank, Digicert, Entrust, ORC – Widepoint, VeriSign and Verizon.
Monitor Dynamics’ Trusted FICAM Platform will be part of a test environment for these large credential issuers that simulates real‐world scenarios where federal employees, customers and partners access facilities as part of their daily routines. Acting as the “lock” through which all entrants must pass, the system ensures that PIV‐I credentials work and meet the requirements necessary to support customers as they work toward meetingentity and facility security mandates.
For more information on Monitor Dynamics and the Trusted FICAM Platform, please visit www.monitordynamics.com or email your request to info@mondyn.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 toentity 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 Monitor Dynamics Established in 1979, Monitor Dynamics is a US based manufacturer of Unified Security Management Systems that blend access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection andentity solutions into an open‐architecture, command and control IP platform. Monitor Dynamics is the proven leader in developing corporate‐wide, military‐wide and federal government‐wide managed security interoperability solutions. These solutions currently deliver real‐time Homeland Security capabilities to over 10 million client access points across the globe. A cross‐section of Monitor Dynamics’ clients include: TSA, FBI, Smithsonian Institute, MIT, US Marines, US Army, DOJ, US Treasury, Bureau of Engraving & Printing, IRS, San Francisco Airport, US Air Force, FDA, USDA, Arizona Supreme Court, State of Arizona, Bank of America, US Navy Europe, Atlantic Casino, Department of Veterans Affairs, PepsiCo, Smith & Wesson, American Express, Wake County North Carolina, San Diego Unified School District, Cox Communications, Daimler Chrysler Trucks and Sigma Aldrich Chemicals. For more information on Monitor Dynamics, please visit www.monitorydynamics.com.