EANS-News: Identive Group Inc. / Hirsch Identive´s Velocity™ Software Verified Compliant with Trusted Computing Group´s IF-MAP Standard

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SANTA ANA, Calif., January 5, 2012 (euro adhoc) - Hirsch Identive, a
leading provider of integrated security and identity management
systems and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE,
Frankfurt: INV) today announced that its Velocity™ Access Control and
Security Management software has been tested and verified to be
compliant with the IF-MAP computing standard by the international
industry standards organization, Trusted Computing Group. IF-MAP is a
standard computing protocol that supports dynamic data interchange
among a wide variety of IT networking components. By becoming IF-MAP
compliant, Hirsch Identive´s systems can now allow organizations to
implement more effective, integrated security systems alongside their
IT networks.

"IF-MAP enables a tight level of integration between physical and
network access control that solves many security issues," says John
Piccininni, Vice President of Business Development for Hirsch
Identive. "The initial use case for IF-MAP integration with Velocity
is the convergence of physical and network access control policies
and permissions. For example, information about an employee´s
location can be dynamically communicated from Hirsch´s physical
access control system to the IT network via IF-MAP, and then access
to network resources can be granted or denied based on a person´s
presence in a given area or building. This minimizes the tendency of
employees to tailgate behind their co-workers through access
controlled doors, while ensuring that anyone logging onto the network
is actually in the building."

Employees must present their credentials to specific readers at doors
in the area or network access may be denied or limited. Those
requesting VPN network privileges or access to wireless points and
even industrial controls can be granted or denied based on their
presence. This capability begins to fulfill the long discussed
promise of security convergence: enhancing physical and network
security and improving operational efficiency and compliance, while
at the same time containing organizational risk and cost.

The Trusted Computing Group´s IF-MAP standard is attracting many
security providers, including those of wireless access points,
firewalls, SIEM and SCADA systems, all of which can share events and
data through published search and subscribe schema defined under the
standard.

As a result of Hirsch Identive´s adoption of the IF-MAP standard,
Velocity can now publish physical access control and security events
to an IF-MAP server just as other IT network devices do. Other
compliant devices can subscribe to the information and act upon it
accordingly. IF-MAP compliant network devices and systems can then
share data without the need to develop costly customized and easily
broken point-to-point integration.

As an added benefit, the nature of this application does not require
users to change access credentials. Users can still use the same
cards, personal identification number and/or biometrics as before.
Additionally, users can utilize existing user name and password
network access credentials and leverage the existing network
infrastructure.

About Hirsch Identive: Hirsch Identive, 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.hirsch-identive.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:
Mr. Lennart Streibel
Tel.: +49 89 9595-5195
E-Mail: lstreibel@identive-group.com

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