HID Global, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, recently announced it has made it significantly easier for large government agencies and organisations to provision identities across many different, unconnected access control systems located throughout geographically dispersed operations. The company’s pivCLASS MultiPACS software is designed to streamline and simplify the process of registering Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials into multiple, disparate physical access control systems (PACS).
A key element of HID Global’s recently expanded pivCLASS portfolio of FIPS 201-based credential registration and verification solutions, MultiPACS was created for government agencies that commonly operate in numerous buildings in several geographic areas, using many different PACS supplied by multiple vendors. Previously, a cardholder who travelled from a building in Washington, D.C. to a facility in another city would need his or her credential to be separately provisioned at multiple locations, and it would be necessary to physically visit each site for PACS registration before access privileges there would be granted. With MultiPACS, this process can be completed from a single location, and access privileges are immediately granted for all authorised sites, simultaneously.
