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NIst SP 800-79-2Release date: July 2015<br> Printed in COLOR <br> The purpose of this Special Publication is to provide appropriate and useful guidelines for assessing the reliability of issuers of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards and Derived PIV Credentials. These issuers store personal information and issue credentials based on Office of Management and Budget (OMB) policies and on the standards published in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) and therefore are the primary target of the assessment and authorization under this guideline. The reliability of an issuer is of utmost importance when one organization (e.g., a federal agency) is required to trust the identity credentials of individuals that were created and issued by another federal agency. This trust will only exist if organizations relying on the credentials issued by a given organization have the necessary level of assurance that the reliability of the issuing organization has been established through a formal authorization process.<br> <br> <b>Why buy a book you can download for free?</b><br> <br> First you gotta find it and make sure it''s the latest version, not always easy. Then you gotta print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people - and its outta paper - and the toner is low (take out the toner cartridge, shake it, then put it back). If it''s just 10 pages, no problem, but if it''s a 250-page book, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. An engineer that''s paid $75 an hour has to do this himself (who has assistant''s anymore?).<br> <br> If you are paid more than $10 an hour and use an ink jet printer, buying this book will save you money.<br> <br> <b>It''s much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com</b><br> <br> This public domain material is published by 4th Watch Books. We publish tightly-bound, full-size books at 8 1⁄2 by 11 inches, with glo