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Smart Card Alliance to Commemorate Federal Government Security Directive HSPD-12 with 10th Anniversary Celebration

The Smart Card Alliance invites government and industry executives to a special event commemorating the 10th anniversary of landmark security directive HSPD-12¹ this summer in Washington, D.C. The one-day event will feature government leaders and current heads of federal agencies looking back on identity and access security achievements of the past decade, as well as forward to opportunities for future advancements.
The “Government Conference Special Edition Event: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of HSPD-12,” held with support from FICAM² and the Interagency Advisory Board (IAB), will take place on July 31, 2014 at the Marriott Metro Center Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The event commemorates the government-wide security directive signed by President George W. Bush in August 2004, which drove momentous change in the way the U.S. federal government manages employee and contractor identities and access to government facilities. HSPD-12 and the resulting FIPS 201 standard established practices for verifying identities and issuing secure, reliable and tamper-proof PIV³ credentials that could be rapidly authenticated electronically across government. Today, nearly 5 million smart card-based PIV credentials have been issued to government employees and contractors for secure access to government buildings and IT systems, and the standards have been extended for non-federal and commercial use.

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