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HSPD-12 Rapid Assessment Program

As you are aware, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12 http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/hspd-12.html) is a mandatory U.S. Presidential directive to establish a common identification standard for all Federal Government employees and contractors. Between 2006 and 2007, the US Government plans to provision over 80 million smart cards for digital identification of all government agency employees and contractors. The smart cards, in the form of ID badges, will contain user identity information and applications (applets) on 64K chips that will be capable of authenticating and authorizing user access to facilities, secure networks, and numerous other services.

For more information about Burton Group HSPD-12 Rapid Assessment call 800.824.9924
x 148 or 801.304.8148.

If HSPD-12 compliance is a top priority for your organization, have you considered the following?

• Do you have an effective action plan for integrating HSPD-12 into your agency's strategic longer term enterprise plan for Security/Identity/Privacy infrastructure?
• How does your agency "rate" when it comes to its HSPD-12 readiness plan?
• Is your current HSPD-12 deployment plan too reliant on an individual smart card vendor's proposed rollout "strategy"?
• Do you have or are you putting in place the required components, security services and related audit trails to support a successful HSPD-12 deployment?
• Have you assessed HSPD-12's impact on your existing IT Infrastructure? (i.e. legacy applications)

HSPD-12 is not just a "smart card" rollout. A successful deployment requires an entire authentication strategy and architecture!

Burton Group has the Security and Identity Management Consulting and vendor knowledge expertise to help you today.

Since 1990 Burton Group has supported hundreds of commercial, education, and government clients in making smarter IT architecture and infrastructure decisions — decisions that yield actionable and cost-effective results. With Burton Group, you can leverage existing and emerging technologies more effectively and reduce risk in the most complex IT environments. Burton Group is a vendor independent advisory firm focused exclusively on network infrastructure technologies relating to security, identity management, collaboration and content, and telecom transport technologies. Our "drill-down" expertise uniquely positions us to create a thorough understanding of security/identity architecture and deployment best practices that we can leverage to assess your near-term and long-term strategies for this watershed event in US Government security.

Burton Group's "HSPD-12 Rapid Assessment" program commits to deliver a focused vendor independent analysis of your IdM strategy, security infrastructure and overall preparedness to effectively support HSPD-12.

The outcome of this short-term engagement provides you with a thorough understanding of your agency's strengths and weaknesses by assessing how your existing identity management infrastructure and strategy can best support your HSPD-12 requirements. This assessment examines your user identity lifecycle infrastructure, credential assignment, management and revocation, user identity data mapping and propagation to the Card Management System and identity audit and reporting.

We accomplish this assessment by electronically surveying up to 10 key 'stakeholders' drawn from cross-functional groups including IT, Security, Architecture, Human Resources, Application Development, Networking, and other 'line of business' executives concerned with identity management integration with HSPD-12 supporting infrastructure. We'll even help you identify the right people to contribute to the survey. We also review the relevant HSPD-12 design and architecture documents maintained by your agency in order to get a focused and thorough understanding of your HSPD-12 supporting infrastructure and strategy. Specific topics investigated include:

• User lifecycle management
• Automated and manual account and entitlement provisioning
• HSPD-12 repository (database/directory) schema
• HSPD-12 repository topology
• Card management system integration
• Identity content and data integration
• Federated authentication
• Identity audit and reporting

After receiving the completed surveys and reviewing your documentation, Burton Group senior level consultants will spend one full day on-site with your team to review the survey responses and correlate this information with your documented infrastructure and strategy.

Following this on-site meeting, Burton Group will provide you with a 15 to 20 page written assessment. The assessment will include a series of tactical and strategic recommendations in those areas identified above, in order to move your HSPD-12 supporting infrastructure forward based on industry best practices, technological capabilities, your agency's unique requirements and other specific findings of the assessment.

Program Investment
This program is available to both Burton Group client and non Burton Group client Federal Government agencies only.

The cost of the HSPD-12 Rapid Assessment is $35,000, which includes travel expenses, with the duration of the engagement typically four to six weeks from start to finish.

Find out how you rate today. Don't delay obtaining a thorough, independent and unbiased assessment of where your agency's strengths and weaknesses are with respect to HSPD-12 readiness - one of the most significant identity management projects in U.S. history.

If you are interested in HSPD-12 Rapid Assessment or have additional questions:

• Contact us
• Call 1.800.824.9924 x 148 or 801.304.8148