Athena CMS Card Management System and Unified Badge

The new standard in Microsoft Windows based Corporate ID card management  

 Athena CMS for Windows brings the security of smart card based corporate IDs to every organization running Windows. Athena CMS leverages your Windows infrastructure components ‘out-of-the-box’ so you can immediately start producing smart card based corporate ID badges with minimal cost and effort. Whether it's a card for:

·         secure logon to PC’s networks, VPNs and web sites

·         secure access to buildings

·         email signing

·         encryption

·         or all of the above on one card

Athena CMS enables you to issue and start using smart cards and USB keys immediately.

Athena CMS minimizes the time and costs associated with issuing and managing smart cards and USB keys, maintaining user account information, tracking devices and credentials, and providing customer service. This is accomplished by leveraging an organization’s existing Microsoft identity infrastructure components including; Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Certificate Services (PKI), Microsoft IIS web server and Microsoft SQL server.

Athena Smartcard Solutions extends the Athena CMS Card Management System to provision both Smart Cards and Physical Access Security Systems on a Unified Corporate ID Badge. Providing a photo ID, secure logical logon or VPN authentication, secure email and documents flow using digital signature. Access all facilities with the same card to enjoy a consolidated security solution.

Technology & Interoperability

Tight integration with Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Athena CMS for Windows supports custom certificate templates held within the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 PKI certification authority. At installation Athena CMS for Windows automatically defaults to the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for PKI. The installer automatically interrogates the server to obtain all Certificate Templates and Groups. An organization can select and use as many certificates as required. Athena CMS for Windows then presents these certificate templates in a meaningful and easy-to-use set of web pages to administrators of the management system. Once certificates have been made available, administrators can start immediately issuing them onto users smart cards or USB keys.

Smart Card and USB Device Support

Athena ASECard Crypto smart cards and ASEKey Crypto USB tokens are managed and used simultaneously. Athena CMS for Windows intelligently monitors all smart card readers so that the correct device drivers are dynamically assigned.

Tight Integration with Microsoft Active Directory

Within most organizations running a Microsoft Windows environment user information is typically held in the Microsoft Active Directory.  Athena CMS for Windows provides an easy-to-use administration tool that front-ends the Microsoft Active Directory. Athena CMS for Windows provides the tools to push information directly into an organization’s directory or alternatively, pull/import all user information from Microsoft Active Directory.

Athena ASECard Contactless Support

Athena CMS for Windows incorporates a module that manages the programming and issuance of contactless cards for physical access, ticketing and vending applications.  This may be used for standalone security applications or, when combined with other modules, the Contactless module becomes a powerful consolidated platform for managing all aspects of card holder identity such as Athena Unified Badge for combined logical and physical access cards.

Key features

Ø       Easy to use, general purpose, web based interface for managing the programming and security of the contactless chip (ISO 14443 type B)

Ø       Encoding of the chip based on data from any field held in the person’s  database record

Ø       Delegated sector management through selective keyset control