Cross Match PIV One
(Personal Identity Verification)

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In response to the federal government's Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201 Standard for Personal Identity Verification (PIV), Cross Match is providing products and solutions to help the federal government clear employees through electronic fingerprint background checks, and equip them with biometric ID badges. The primary purpose of PIV is to help the government ensure only vetted employees receive ID cards. An added benefit is that PIV enables a government agency to improve overall efficiency and reduce costs with one enterprise-wide credentialing system that is compliant with all government standards and interoperable with other agencies. The PIV card can be used for biometric security applications on location and in the field, such as door access control, computer network access control and remote site ID verification.

The PIV program includes the following steps:

Step 1: Agency designated sponsor submits electronic request to the federal agency registrar for an employee credential

Step 2: Agency designated registrar takes photos, fingerprints and ID data from employee

Step 3: Registrar validates the authenticity of identity documents such as drivers licenses, birth certificates or passports

Step 4: Registrar ensures the employee is not enrolled in the credentialing system more than once

Step 5: Registrar conducts an electronic fingerprint background check on employee through the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Step 6: Registrar validates all info on employee upon receiving background check clearance

Step 7: Agency designated issuer digitally signs and encrypts the credential elements and issues an ID card to the employee. The SP800-73 specification defines the format and content stored on the PIV card which includes the fingerprint image information captured during the background check/registration process

Step 8: The employee's identity is verified with a fingerprint and optional facial match by the Issuer

Step 9: A PIN number is created for the employee and stored on the ID card

Step 10: Employee receives the ID card

For information on how Cross Match can help address PIV program requirements, click here.

Biometric IDs and Credentialing

Cross Match’s Credentialing System, with software, hardware and a proven enrollment process, is the fundamental building block for enabling enterprise-wide biometric security. Corporations and government agencies today face serious security problems related to identity theft, terrorism, cyberterrorism, fraud, and espionage. These threats are real and can cost an organization its most valuable assets. Fingerprint biometric technology has been proven to be a reliable enhanced layer of security in vetting employees and contractors, controlling access to secure areas and buildings, as well as controlling access to computers, and tracking time and attendance. The Cross Match Credentialing System is flexible. You can utilize a complete solution or Cross Match Credentialing Tools if you are implementing your own system.

The Credentialing System and Credentialing Tools from Cross Match were designed to enable your organization to accomplish the following:

• Capture biometric data, photos and demographic data as stipulated by your organization's requirements
  
  
• Extract biometric data to create templates
  
  
• Ensure no duplicate enrollment
  
  
• Provide a way to encode, encrypt and format the data into standards-based format onto a
  smart card or into a database
  
  
• Print credentials
  
  
• Validate the ID of a credential holder
  
  

Features

The Cross Match Credentialing System and tools provide support for the following:

• Open and extract data and fingerprint images from EFT records
  
  
• Live fingerprint capture from livescan and single/dual finger scanners
  
  
• Extract minutiae - M1
  
  
• Scanning, displaying, formatting images into JPEG/JPEG 2000, WSQ, PNG, BMP, TIF, etc.
  
  
• GUI to determine which fingers are captured and stored as well as quality threshold settings
  
  
• Crypto component - ability to encrypt or decrypt data and images (AES)
  
  
• Digital signatures - PKI support
  
  
• Identity record formatting - formatting of data/minutiae prior to encoding
  
  
• Secure envelope - signed wrapper around formatted data
  
  
• Certificate requests - PKI certificate request support