FIPS 201
FIPS 201 ( Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 201), Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors , is a standard of NIST and specifies technical requirements for access control for employees and contractors of the US government . Requirements for physical and logical access control are described. The purpose of the standard is to specify a secure system that can be used to verify the identity of individuals who need access to government buildings or government IT systems. FIPS 201 was published in March 2006, the current and final version 201-2 in September 2013.
The standard consists of two parts. The first part describes the minimum requirements for an access control system, as required in the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12). The second part contains technical specifications intended to ensure the interoperability of different systems.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FIPS 201-1 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 933 kB)
- ↑ FIPS 201-2 (PDF; 2.2 MB)