TWIC Access Credentials Under Fire
By: Brian Rhodes, Published on Oct 20, 2014Read this IPVM report for free.
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Comments (1)
Rodney Thayer
TWIC is a legacy government smartcard solution that doesn't work. It's in the long line of those, along with DoD CAC. If you want to worry about the US Federal market look at FIPS 201-2. (which is not called PIV-II CAC)
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