Department of Commerce To Implement RSA Solution to Secure VPNs

Operational Research Consultants, Inc. (ORC), a wholly owned subsidiary of WidePoint Corporation, has signed a contract with the Department of Commerce (DoC) to provide two-factor authentication tokens and Virtual Private Network (VPN) implementation support.The Contract will have a term of five years and an initial value of approximately $2 million. Under this contract, ORC will prepare and provide architectural changes, documentation, and best practices along with RSA secure identification tokens in order to secure DoC VPNs in accordance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directives. This will allow Department of Commerce and its sub agencies to meet the growing demand for security against the constant threat of intrusion.

ORC's PIVotal ID solution will include RSA Authentication Manager software as the management component of the RSA SecurID solution.

ORC's PIVotal ID solution will verify authentication requests and centrally administer user authentication policies for access to enterprise networks.

According to the company, no other system presently available compares to ORC's PIVotal ID solution utilizing RSA SecurID authenticators and RSA Authentication Agent software, which provides better two-factor user authentication to protect access to more VPNs, wireless networks, web applications, business applications and operating environments, including the Microsoft Windows operating system.

ORC's CEO and president, Daniel E. Turissini, said, "The combination of ORC's technical team and RSA's hardware and software solution creates effective policies and network architecture to deploy highly secure VPNs to meet and exceed OMB's requirements. ORC looks forward to supporting the DoC in its efforts to meet its federal mandates and is proud to be a part of the federal government's security efforts."

For more information on ORC, visit http://orc.com.