SANTA ANA, Calif. and ISMANING, Germany, June 20, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
-- Identive Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:INVE) (Frankfurt:INV), a provider of
products and services for the identification, security and RFID
industries, today announced that its PACT 1241 physical access control
terminal has been approved for the Identity, Credential and Access
Management (ICAM) Certified Products List (CPL) of CertiPath, a leading
independent provider of identity assurance services. This certification
signifies to federal, state and local government agencies that
Identive's PACT 1241 reader has undergone rigorous testing for
compliance with the recommendations of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) as laid out in NIST SP 800-116. The
reader was tested in a number of authentication modes and demonstrated
its ability to correctly and faithfully work with government-issued
Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and PIV-I credentials, using both
the contact and contactless interfaces of these cards.

"To comply with federal mandates, agencies at the national, state and
local level are deploying PIV and PIV-I credentials for physical access
authentication, extending their current use for secure network logon
and cyber access. Approval for the CertiPath CPL identifies the PACT
1241 as a trusted product for use with these highly secure credentials,
and in particular to support the management of both network and
physical access with a single set of electronic credentials, or PKI at
the door," said John Menzel, vice president Access Control ID Solutions
for Identive.

CertiPath's CPL includes end-to-end system configurations that meet
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-201 requirements, thus
providing OEMs and facility owners with peace of mind knowing their
systems meet the detailed security requirements of federal standards.
CertiPath's process included assessment of Identive's physical access
reader in more than 160 test cases within a full physical access
control system. The PACT 1241 reader is certified to operate with any
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)-approved authentication
module as part of a complete Card Authentication Key (CAK)
authentication system.

Monitor Dynamics, a provider of Unified Security Management Solutions
to the US federal government, unifies Identive's PACT 1241 reader into
its Award-Winning Trusted FICAM Platform for FIPS 201 PACS compliance
to support all authentication modes up to and including two-factor
PIV-I authentication -- enabling the delivery of PKI at the reader for
validation across the Federal Bridge. The combined solution recently
won the Platinum Award for Best Government Access Control System from
Security Products Magazine test labs and GovSec Government Security
Conference Judges. "Unifying Identive's PACT readers into the Trusted
FICAM Platform allows us to offer all government organizations an
accelerated path to compliance with a turn-key FIPS-201 approved CAK
authentication system, capable of reading PIV and PIV-I credentials out
of the box. This proven combination is currently operating at numerous
DoD installations across the United States and is scheduled for
additional new implementations throughout the year," said Troy Paddock,
president of Monitor Dynamics.

About Identive

Identive Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:INVE) (Frankfurt:INV) is focused on
building the world's signature company in Secure ID. The company's
products, software, systems and services address the markets for
identity management, physical and logical access control, cashless
payment, NFC solutions and a host of RFID-enabled applications for
customers in the government, enterprise, consumer, education and
healthcare sectors. Identive's mission is to build a lasting business
of scale and technology based on a combination of strong
technology-driven organic growth and disciplined acquisitive expansion.
The company delivers up-to-date information on its activity as well as
industry trends through its industry-leading social media initiatives
and educational resource, AskIdentive.com. For additional information,
please visit www.identive-group.com or follow on Twitter at
@IdentiveGroup.

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CONTACT: Darby Dye, +1 949 553-4251, ddye@identive-group.com
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