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Considerations for the Migration of Existing Physical Access Control Systems to Achieve FIPS 201 |
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This standard has far-reaching effects on federal agencies in providing specifications that govern the entire chain of trust of the identity system and in specifying a single smart card - the PIV card - to be used for both physical and logical access, as well as other applications as determined by the individual agencies.
The white paper is designed to assist government agencies with the first phases of PACS migration to provide support for the new PIV cards that are being issued. It focuses on the current security environment for physical access and, through a series of questions, makes recommendations for how agencies can migrate and upgrade their current PACS to align them with the requirements of HSPD-12 and FIPS 201. Some of the questions the white paper addresses include:
- What happens when some employees have PIV cards and some do not?
- How can the existing PACS accommodate the migration to FIPS 201 compatibility?
- Can systems be upgraded or must new systems be acquired?
- What security considerations are there?
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