What are the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements?
Answer:
The PIV requirements are based on the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) that requires federal agencies to issue secure and reliable forms of personal identification:
- Based on sound criteria to verify an individual employee identity
- That are strongly resistant to fraud, tampering, counterfeiting, and terrorist exploitation
- That can provide rapid electronic verification of personal identity
- That contain identity tokens issued only by providers whose reliability has been established by an official accreditation process
- Applicable to all government organizations and contractors
- To be used to grant access to federally-controlled facilities and logical access to federally-controlled information systems
- Not applicable to identification associated with national security systems
- To be implemented in a manner that protects individual privacy