Secure Federated ID

Secure Federated ID: Full-Service Identity Management from Northrop Grumman

Purchasing, operating and maintaining the equipment and services involved in supporting federated identity management in house requires a substantial, recurring capital and management resource investment. Northrop Grumman provides a scalable, comprehensive, network-based solution that meets all federally mandated requirements for identity management and credentialing, and seamlessly integrates with your organization's existing access control and personnel systems while leveraging economies of scale.

Northrop Grumman's Secure Federated ID solution, which is aligned with Department of Defense and Homeland Security Presidential Directives and requirements, such as HSPD-12 and Federal Information Processing Standards, such as FIPS-201, incorporates the following key components:

Federated Network System
Enrollment System
Card Production System

Card/Credential Management System
Credential Authentication System
Managed Services

Northrop Grumman has combined its vast experience with systems integration and security related solutions for the federal, state and local, and commercial markets to develop and deploy a comprehensive Secure Federated ID solution. Northrop Grumman's solution. . .

employs a cross-credentialing system for authentication across multiple organizational domains;
securely authenticates users wishing to gain physical or logical access into the domains of other system participant domains using their corporate credentials. Using this model, a user need only be issued a single card - one that can be associated with several credentials - to be used for authentication at the domain of any other participant organization in the system;
incorporates existing requirements for cross-domain tokens and credentials that can all reside on an existing corporate identity card;
supplies the critical link between the technology and business process, vital to maintaining continuity of identification throughout the authentication lifecycle.

By offering the solution as a managed service, Northrop Grumman eliminates the need for our clients to invest in their own IDM infrastructure and significantly reduces the costs of compliance with new IDM regulations and helping secure business opportunities.