Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12) is Coming … and EDS is Ready to Help
28 Mar 2006
Why choose EDS?
- EDS has more than 10 years of experience in federal biometric and card-based access control systems and has developed the EDS Assured Identity™ Solution to assist government agencies in achieving compliance with HSPD-12.
- EDS is the only IT services integrator to implement a massive-scale smart card solution for the U.S. government.
- EDS serves as the prime integrator for the largest advanced smart card program for the U.S. Department of Defense – Defense Manpower Data Center. EDS has delivered more than 16 million common access cards to the DMDC.
- EDS implemented the Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS), the U.S. Department of Defense's broadest physical access system, which includes biometric authentication. Currently, more than 1.2 million U.S. military personnel, family members and contractors globally are registered in DBIDS.
- EDS developed an automated biometric passport control inspection system, ExpressEntry SM , for Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv for Israeli frequent international travelers. ExpressEntry SM enabled EDS to deploy similar projects in three months or less, including two implementations for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveller program.
- EDS helped the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service implement an automated inspection system in 1995 that used hand geometry to verify the identity of more than 90,000 travelers at automated inspection stations.
- EDS is a founding member of the Federation for Identity Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXS), an industry-formed consortium actively working with the U.S. Department of Defense on secure military installation access by defense contractors.
- With the rollout of 4 million cards for the United Kingdom's Card Account at the Post Office, EDS serves as Europe's largest provider of non-financial smart cards.
By 27 October 2006, U.S. federal government agencies must begin issuing secure identification credentials with a two-finger biometric and digital certificate to more than 1.8 million employees and contractors.
This massive undertaking is a result of the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12), a mandate from President George W. Bush, to establish a common identification standard for all federal government employees and contractors.
Industry experts say that this aggressive deadline for the HSPD-12 compliance will be challenging to meet for most agencies.
EDS is ready to help you meet HSPD-12 requirements, along with other government mandates for identity management, with the EDS Assured Identity TM Solution. Our proven, end-to-end authentication solutions are already helping government clients address critical security and privacy issues every day.
We have more than 40 years of experience securing the critical information of government and commercial clients. In fact, establishing secure credentials is something we've done more than 16 million times.
What makes EDS a leading IdM provider?
- Business solution approach to security and privacy consulting
- Full integration of security, privacy and risk management services
- Life-cycle approach providing protection from ever-changing threats and vulnerabilities
- Extensive global delivery capabilities
- Certified and expert privacy, security, fraud and risk management consultants
- Technology vendor independent to provide the “right” solution
- Proven, repeatable methodologies
- Broad, global industry knowledge of security and privacy risks and opportunities
One of EDS' leading identity management experts is David Troy, who has more than 20 years of experience designing, developing and deploying identity solutions for border, immigration and access control in the United States and Israel. Contact Troy today to find out how EDS can help government agencies meet the challenges for implementing HSPD-12.
Why is identity management important?
Identity management improves security and reduces the administrative costs associated with application deployments and user management. For example:
- Identity management improves application security. An identity management strategy allows users to have their passwords and security credentials managed centrally. This improves usability and consistency, while reducing the temptation for users to write this information down in a handy place (a very insecure practice).
- Identity management improves access. An identity management strategy allows authorized individuals to gain access to government buildings as well as applications quickly, eliminating wasted employee time. Identity management also enables a customized application experience.
- Identity management saves money. Fragmented application user administration is a very expensive, laborious and error-prone process. Identity management centralizes and automates many user administration tasks, thereby reducing administration costs while improving accuracy and security.
What are the benefits of implementing an Identity Management program in your own environment?
EDS' Identity Management (IdM) services use a standard methodology to identify your organization's needs for business security, as well as our experience to create solutions, enabling you to proactively manage security threats and risks, embrace new opportunities and reduce costs. EDS' IdM services help deliver a greater return on investment and raise security levels. Compliance with new privacy regulations that require enhanced security for user access plagues organizations that face increased cost constraints. Our services and solutions can reduce costs by enhancing existing security measures through user provisioning, self-administration, single sign-on and strong authentication.
With multiple government mandates for identity management on the horizon, the time is right for EDS Assured Identity TM Solution. It is a wholly integrated secure and scalable system that allows agencies the capability to efficiently implement, or leverage in a shared services environment, a compliant system with minimal cost. And it is based on intellectual capital from EDS' extensive field-level experience in federal biometric and card-based access control systems as well as commercial best practices.
How is EDS' IdM solution different from other solutions in the marketplace?
Early in 2005, EDS recognized the significant challenges that the U.S. federal government would have to overcome in order to meet the October 2006 deadline for issuing new security credentials to all employees and contractors. Toward this end, EDS harnessed the production-proven human and intellectual capital from its numerous biometric, smart-card and logical access client implementations from around the world, and complemented that with industry-leading commercial products for a comprehensive IdM solution. Recognized as the EDS Assured Identity TM Solution, it enables an organization to efficiently and rapidly establish, vet, credential and manage an individual's full lifecycle identity across the enterprise.
Complementing the field-hardened foundation of the EDS Assured Identity TM Solution are best-in-class products from EDS' Agility Alliance partners as well as high-value IdM solution components from specialized firms. The deployment model supports both turnkey solutions as well as a shared services approach. It incorporates more than 10 years of EDS IdM process and technology experience. It is based on lessons EDS has learned issuing more than 10 million common access cards in support of the Department of Defense's largest smart-card program as well as EDS' experience implementing the award-winning ExpressEntry SM system in airports in Israel and the United States.
While the EDS Assured Identity TM Solution was developed primarily to meet the immediate needs of the U.S. federal government, the framework and components of this solution are universal and can easily be applied to meet the needs of other government and commercial clients, saving time to implement and lowering risk through proven solutions.