Science & Technology
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
Fri, May 7, 2010
Thu, May 6, 2010 ActivIdentity and Siemens Enterprise Communications Win Big in UK Law Enforcement Market
FREMONT, CA--(Marketwire - May 6, 2010) - [ ActivIdentity Corporation ] (
The [ ActivIdentity ActivID Card Management System ] is a reliable, proven and extensible solution that allows NPIA and associated police forces to issue and manage digital credentials on smart cards and securely update applications and credentials after the applications and credentials have been issued to end users. The [ ActivIdentity ActivClient ] security software will enable all of the country's police agencies to secure workstations with smart cards while enforcing strong authentication for desktop access, network login, and remote access to the new Central Service infrastructure, focusing on the Police National Database (PND) as the first national application.
"NPIA's decision to procure an end-to-end identity and access solution via Siemens Enterprise Communications' framework demonstrates their forward-looking commitment to ensuring that the right people get access to confidential and potentially critical case information," said Craig Pollard, head of the criminal justice sector at Siemens Enterprise Communications. "Together with ActivIdentity we are continuing to extend our market share in the UK law enforcement sector by delivering innovative solutions that offer value for money."
"We are extremely proud to continue our engagement with NPIA beyond providing them with enterprise single sign-on technology, and we are especially pleased that they selected our ActivIdentity ActivID™ Card Management System as a core component of their UK police service offering," said Grant Evans, chairman and chief executive officer of ActivIdentity. "This selection validates our investment in the public services sector, where we are committed to continue delivering quality solutions and new innovative products to public safety services globally such as the company's award-winning mobile validation solution known as PIVMAN."
NPIA's new Central Police Service infrastructure is part of the agency's overall ISIS, which strives to transform police information and communications technology; move towards convergence and the use of common, compatible standards and technology throughout the police service; converge police forces' information systems to a minimum variation; and create a single re-usable national IT infrastructure. Once in place, this new infrastructure will provide a national Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and federated authentication model, which will promote confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity across all UK police forces. Individual police forces may re-use their smart card deployments to deliver equally secure confidentiality, integrity and authenticity services locally or regionally through collaborative working practices encouraged by the Home Office and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).
About ActivIdentity
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About Siemens Enterprise Communications
Siemens Enterprise Communications is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications companies include Siemens Enterprise Communications, Cycos, and Enterasys Networks. For more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications please visit [ www.siemens-enterprise.com ].
ActivIdentity, ActivID, and ActivClient are registered trademarks in the United States and / or other countries. Siemens Enterprise Communications & Co K.G. is a trademark licensee of Siemens AG. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners in the United States and / or other countries.
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