Product Overview

As large organizations move away from the use of traditional user name/password mechanisms for access control, they face the challenge of managing a large and fluctuating number of end users, dispersed locations, and heterogeneous environments.

ActivIdentity ActivID™ Card Management System provides a complete, flexible, and highly configurable solution to manage the issuance and administration requirements of successful smart card deployments. With ActivIdentity ActivID™ Card Management System organizations can manage their authentication devices (e.g., smart cards and smart USB tokens), data (e.g., static passwords, biometrics, and demographic data), applets (e.g. one-time password applications and Personal Identity Verification [PIV] applets), and digital credentials (including public key infrastructure [PKI] certificates) throughout their entire life cycle.

In conjunction with ActivIdentity ActivClient™ security software as well as public key cryptography standards (PKCS) #11-compliant middleware, ActivIdentity ActivID™ Card Management System issues and manages smart cards and smart USB tokens that can be used for a wide variety of desktop, network security, and productivity applications. In its fullest use case, it becomes a “Smart Employee ID Card” for both logical and physical access control.

Features and Benefits

ActivIdentity ActivID™ Card Management System includes the following benefits:

• Minimizes the time and costs associated with deploying and maintaining digital identities in the form of smart cards or smart USB tokens
  
• Provides a highly scalable and configurable management platform for multifunction employee badges and other smart card-based IDs
• Includes easy-to-define security policies and business processes for issuing and managing digital credentials and devices across unlimited end user groups in geographically dispersed locations
• Integrates easily with a wide variety of operating systems, directories, front- or back-end identity management and provisioning systems, certificate authorities, and physical access control systems
• Meets stringent U.S. federal government standards for Personal Identity Verification (PIV)
• Ensures a secure, transparent way of transmitting secrets held on smart cards or smart USB tokens connected to user workstations

ActivIdentity ActivID Card Management System includes the following features:

• Customizable workflows and policies that readily adapt to a variety of environments and deployment scenarios
• Full, tamper-evident audit features that log all event activities for reporting
• Extensibility to support batch and service bureau issuance models
• Unique, patented post-issuance update capabilities
• Web-based self service
• Web-based help desk administration

The ActivIdentity ActivID Card Management System offering also includes a software development kit for systems integrators and independent software vendors.