Leading managed mobility
solutions provider WidePoint Corporation announced it has launched and is now
providing e-passport certificate management and validation as part of its
PIVotal ID Managed Validation Services. The solution complies with
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards, which have been
implemented by almost all of that organization’s 191 member states.
WidePoint’s solution
leverages Mount Airey Group’s Ozone e-passport technology, which provides the
capability of obtaining digital certificate validation data elements and
securely applying them in an operational environment without installing a large
and expensive infrastructure. This makes deploying electronic verification of
e-passports faster and less costly.
“WidePoint’s PIVotal ID
validation service manages Master Certificate Lists for Country Signing CA
certificates that establish trust points for each country,” said William
Russell, CTO of Mount Airey Group. “By leveraging our Ozone e-passport
solution, WidePoint’s Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)
compliant validation service obtains the relevant digitally signed validation
data from issuing country repositories, validates the document signer
certificates and trust chain, and services validation requests from inspection
systems.”
During 2013, United States
citizens made more than 60 million trips to overseas destinations, and
nonresident visitation into the U.S. surpassed 50 million, according to the
U.S. International Trade Administration Office of Travel and Tourism
Industries; however, the infrastructure to electronically verify e-passports is
not widely available.
By collaborating with Mount
Airey Group, WidePoint will enable airports, airlines, and regulatory agencies
to verify e-passports effectively, securely and efficiently. As use of
e-passports increases, the benefits of their security features can only be
fully realized when the infrastructure is in place to read and verify them.
“We view this as a wonderful
opportunity to fill this need with a highly scalable and recurring
transactional revenue model that can easily and cost-effectively be deployed
within a mobile cloud environment,” said WidePoint CEO and chairman Steve L.
Komar.
For more information, visit
www.widepoint.com
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