Media Alert
CoreStreet Expands Washington, D.C. Office
Leading Convergent Security Technology Provider Responds to Demand from Agencies Facing Presidential Mandate; Builds on Global Implementation for the U.S. Department of Defense
Cambridge, MA (September 8, 2005)
CoreStreet, Ltd., a leading provider of infrastructure and applications for smart credentials, announced today that it is expanding its Washington, D.C. organization to address growing demand from federal agencies that are under a mandate to converge their now- disparate physical and computer access control systems over the next two years.
“This really builds on our work over the last three years with the Department of Defense,” according to Bob Dulude, CoreStreet's chief security officer. “There we developed a totally new credential validation architecture that enabled the department to overcome a major barrier and deliver high performance validation on a scale that had never been viable.”
“Now with major deadlines approaching for the implementation of HSPD-12, which touches nearly every federal government employee and contractor, we are using that insight and working closely with a number of agencies to help design and deploy the validation infrastructure and applications needed to comply with the mandate. Also, we are working to help these organizations use their new credentials to meet their advanced security goals,” Dulude explained. “Our expanded presence in the capital enables us to work more effectively with our agency customers and the systems integrators on which many agencies rely for major initiatives such as HSPD-12.”
Underscoring the strategic importance of CoreStreet's federal sales and marketing effort, Dulude noted, is the recent relocation of CoreStreet's Chief Technology Officer Dave Engberg to the Capitol Region from the company's Cambridge headquarters. “With Dave in Washington on an ongoing basis, we're able to provide better support as an organization, and Dave's able to work more closely with the organizations he advises.”
One of the most important and far-reaching federal security initiatives, HSPD-12 and the associated FIPS 201 standard, call for every federal employee and contractor to be issued a single electronic identity credential by October 2007. This will enable individuals to use that single credential to access their government information systems, such as email and accounting, as well as to enter physical locations, such as office buildings and laboratories.
By October, 2006, every agency covered by HSPD-12 must start issuing smart card-based identity badges. They then have another year to get the required identity management software and access control mechanisms, such as badge readers, electronic door locks, and credential validation systems, fully implemented. Because this mandate affects several million individuals, and because each agency is responsible for designing, procuring, and implementing its own converged access control infrastructure, HSPD-12 is creating a significant demand for companies that supply the infrastructure and applications these agencies now require.
CoreStreet, whose products are in use worldwide by intelligence agencies and the U.S. Department of Defense, supplies critical infrastructure for these systems. Specifically, CoreStreet software and hardware are used to reliably confirm or deny cardholders' access to computer networks anywhere in the world. Today, CoreStreet's technology validates millions of cardholders and can scale to accommodate hundreds of millions as the system grows.
The architecture CoreStreet developed, known as Distributed Online Certificate Status Protocol (D-OCSP), delivers high performance at a scale previously unattainable without a tremendous investment in additional infrastructure. As a result, the DoD selected CoreStreet to validate its tens of millions of certificates. Now CoreStreet is the first to provide true convergence by validating credentials in both logical and physical settings as required by HSPD-12.
“Our expanded Washington, D.C. team will also help us work more closely with our systems integration and technology partners who are working jointly to deliver comprehensive solutions for agencies under pressure to meet the deadlines for compliance,” Dulude added.
About CoreStreet
Every day, the world's most demanding government and commercial enterprises rely on CoreStreet technology to authorize critical events, ranging from opening signed e-mail and documents to granting physical access. More information, including technical whitepapers, industry solution studies and a list of the patents awarded to the company, is available at www.corestreet.com. www.corestreet.com.
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