ActivID Batch Management System

Producing employee ID cards in house is economically challenging for many large organizations. To reduce costs and complexity, these organizations leverage service bureaus to personalize and encode their employee smart cards. However, electronically communicating large quantities of sensitive employee data poses a security risk.

The ActivIdentity ActivID™ Batch Management System enables organizations to extend the functionality of the ActivIdentity ActivID™ Card Management System and communicate securely with service bureaus for personalization and encoding of their employee smart cards. ActivIdentity ActivID Batch Management System creates and manages batches of smart card requests and exchanges information with the service bureau that executes these requests and produces the cards. At the same time, the ActivIdentity ActivID Batch Management System communicates with the ActivIdentity ActivID Card Management System to enable secure post-issuance activation and life cycle management of the smart cards after production is completed.

This deployment scenario offers the following benefits:

• Reduces issuance time by separating card production from card issuance
• Lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) by leveraging the efficiencies of producing smart cards in a high-volume personalization and encoding facility
• Enables issuance of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards, which support compliance with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS 201)
• Assures data confidentiality and integrity by encrypting data transmitted to the smart card production facility

ActivIdentity ActivID Batch Management System includes the following features:

• Flexible batch issuance process, allowing smart cards to be produced either in a blocked state for post-production activation process or ready to be used by end users
• Capability to communicate with multiple card production facilities and multiple delivery sites
• Complete tracking of batch orders throughout their life cycle via unique identifiers
• Ability to encrypt and sign batch order files and secure communications between the management console and the service bureau via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology

ActivIdentity ActivID Batch Management System: How It Works