HP Helps Federal Government Agencies Improve Security and IT Operations

HP today announced new solutions and services to help government agencies increase security while becoming more agile. Announced at FOSE 2006, the offerings focus on several federal priorities including: identity management; personal identification verification solutions in support of HSPD-12, a homeland security presidential directive; open source strategy and solutions; document management; and solutions for ports, borders and customs.

“HP is pleased to demonstrate our global government solutions for federal decision makers at FOSE,” said Jim Ganthier, leader, worldwide Defense, Intelligence, and Public Security Solutions, Technology Solutions Group, HP. “HP enables governments to better serve the public by improving access, insight and integration of information, processes and people.”

HP is working with ImageWare Systems, Inc. and Software Productivity Strategist, Inc. on a solution that incorporates biometrics for a personal identification verification card to allow both physical and IT access to enterprise resources.

The solution leverages the HP OpenView Identity Management software suite, including HP OpenView Select Access and Select Identity, to simplify the management of the lifecycle of the identity, access rights and compliance through a single enterprise view with remote management control from edge devices to the enterprise database. In addition, the solution’s “Biometric Engine” can evolve to comply with the future needs of government biometric requirements.

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