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The Pegasus Identity Credential

 

What is the Pegasus Identity Credential?
• An expansion of the Pegasus Program’s Local-2-Local law enforcement information exchange service, which currently serves law enforcement agencies in 34 states
• A non-Federal, FIPS 201-standard-based credential (ID card) authorized and managed by the holder’s employer or local agency, recognizable by law enforcement perimeter control gatekeepers nationwide
• A strong, secure identity mechanism used to verify the individual holder’s identity, skills and credentials in emergency response disciplines—law enforcement, fire, healthcare, critical infrastructure and emergency management
• A visual ID card for use in local, known, and trusted environments, provided by a national public-private partnership
• A card that electronically certifies the cardholder’s identity, skills and credentials for use in disaster reentry and as a first responder

Why a Multi-Function Identity Credential Recognized by Law Enforcement?
• Instead of multiple credentials and multiple credentialing efforts and costs, a single highly-secure multi-function credential that meets the needs of cardholders and facility owners for physical and logical access control, while also meeting external needs for disaster reentry and first responder credentials recognized by law enforcement
• To leverage and build upon existing trust relationships and mutual-aid agreements that support cooperative and cross-functional response by emergency personnel today

What is it for?
• Enables individual facility owners to credential their own personnel to meet internal needs for access control and external needs for disaster reentry credentialing and authentication of professional and volunteer First Responders and other Essential Personnel
• Enables cardholders to electronically verify their identities, skills and credentials to a broad range of law enforcement and other third parties who need to make informed decisions in granting/denying permission to access secured areas, facilities or systems