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TrustBearer Labs to Pilot at FAA

November, 2007- TrustBearer Labs, an authentication and software solutions company, has developed a product that allows government agencies to collect smart card data at web-based kiosks and use this data to provision users into physical and logical access systems. The newly launched product, TrustBearer Connect, was deployed for pilot usage by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The FAA needed a way to register users to sites, which they visit to enable physical and logical access with smart cards, which are issued to all U.S. government agency employees and contractors. While the government issues all smart cards by the same HSPD-12 ID card standard, back-end physical and logical access systems need a way to link existing users to their newly issued cards. "We found that our software and consulting expertise could simply solve a common problem for government agencies," says David Corcoran, founder and Chief Technology Officer of TrustBearer Labs. "Our core web-enabled software allows organizations to use smart cards and many other authentication devices and computing environments, and bridge their capabilities to rich web applications.

The extension of this technology to government physical and logical access systems, will make it simple for agencies like the FAA to deal with roaming employees in a simple, self service manner." TrustBearer Connect will allow agencies, to rapidly review a cardholders data and send it to a central security database using a web-based interface. Agencies can provision this information into existing databases and applications, enabling physical and logical access at local sites.