EANS-News: Identive Group Inc. / Hirsch´s Lars Suneborn Appointed to Lead Rewrite of RTCA National Airport Access Control Standards

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Santa Ana, Calif., November 8, 2011 (euro adhoc) - Hirsch
Electronics, a leading security systems manufacturer and a business
unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV) announces
Lars Suneborn, Director of the Government Program Group for Hirsch,
will lead the RTCA (Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics)
Subcommittee SC 224 effort to update the RTCA DO230 Integrated
Security System Standard for Airport Access Control.

A thirty-year veteran of the identity management and access control
industries, Suneborn will lead the RTCA subcommittee through a
complete overhaul and revision of physical access control system
performance standards for the U.S. air transport industry. Last
updated in February 2008, these standards provide guidance to
airports nationwide on the implementation of airport staff security
systems including identity management and credentials, physical
access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance. The
official standards advisory council will meet several times over the
next 16 months.

Suneborn stated, "The justification for the rewrite reflects the
emergence of new smart cards, identity management and credential
technology along with the impact modern technologies and innovations
have on physical access control systems. Technology improvements
have been so significant the most effective approach is a
comprehensive redraft of the standards."

Along with the committee´s security industry experts, key personnel
from FAA, TSA, AAAE, ACC, ACI, DHS and additional industry-associated
individuals will be invited to attend and observe. The presence of
influential aviation decision-makers allows for complete,
comprehensive understanding of the new access control standards as
they are developed, easing future implementation of the guidelines by
the aviation industry. "The idea here," Suneborn explained, "is to
provide uniformity of standards across the industry so that the
federal funding process for critical access control improvements can
be streamlined." The new policies can be used by both commercial and
private airports, airstrips, landing fields and other
industry-related facilities.

About Hirsch: Hirsch, a business unit of Identive Group, Inc.
(NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt: INV), manufactures integrated security and
identity systems for worldwide markets. Hirsch´s award-winning
solutions incorporate access control, video surveillance, intrusion
detection, digital certificates, smart cards and biometrics in order
to successfully secure facilities, digital assets and electronic
transactions. For more information, please visit
www.HirschElectronics.com.

Identive Group, Inc. is a leading provider of products, services and
solutions for the security, identification and RFID industries. For
more information, please visit www.identive-group.com. All trade
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
holders.

Further inquiry note:
Frau Annika Oelsner
Tel.: +49 89 9595-5220
E-Mail: aoelsner@identive-group.com

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