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contractors for the past 15 years,” said Steve Larson, chairman and CEO of SureID, Inc.
“We are now introducing our high assurance identity to commercial enterprise and other federal customers. Whether a company needs a PIV-I solution to meet government compliance requirements
or manage their vendor and contractor employee
populations, or both, SureID Certified Enterprise
offers the identity solution to meet a company’s
needs.”
The SureID Certified Enterprise identity
solution includes:
SureID Certified Enterprise
For medium and large-sized businesses needing
a high assurance identity for vendors and contractors. This identity can integrate within a commercial enterprise organization’s existing credential or
identification badge system. SureID Certified Enterprise also includes a thorough background screen
that can offer ongoing monitoring to an identity on
a subscription basis.
SureID Certified Management Portal
The portal offers full credential lifecycle management for third-party vendors and contractors. Features include registering, identity proofing, screening, credentialing, authenticating, reporting and
notification management. The portal also provides
real-time revocation allowing system administrators to status check and immediatel y revoke any
credential.
SureID Certified API
Oct/Nov 2016 Edition
The Application Program Interfaces (APIs) integrate to existing enterprise identity and access
management (IAM) systems, as well as to logical
and physical access controls.
SureID Certified PIV-I
For government contractors, the new streamlined
SureID Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable
(PIV-I) federated solution can integrate within an
organization’s existing infrastructure, enable multifactor authentication and provide trusted access
through the federal bridge.
This trusted identity can also help Department of
Defense (DoD) and other federal government contractors to achieve NIST SP 800-171 compliance.
Industry analysts have also called attention to the
need for advanced vendor management (VM) systems.
Christopher Ambrose, Research VP at Gartner
Christopher Ambrose, research vice president at
pressures are growing, improving VM should not
just be a response to regulations, but rather a desire to apply a better and more standardized discipline to the management of the life cycle of vendor
relationships.”
Ambrose went on to predict that “by 2017, CIOs
will develop vendor relationship skills as a top-five
competency to extract business value and innovation from strategic vendors.”*
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