Real-Time Technology Group: Critical Information Management

SWAC Membership

More than 35,000 contractors in the NY Metro area are enrolled in the Secure Worker Access Consortium.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages critical infrastructure essential to the bi-state region's trade and transportation capabilities, is among the companies who have joined SWAC.

RTV3 drives SWAC enabling:

A seamless link for real-time verification of workers who travel among worksites.

Efficient data collection
Automatic process identity verification
Comprehensive criminal background investigations
Fast visual recognition of secure workers
Positive access right verification
RTV3 meets federal compliance standards including HSPD-12 and FIPS 201

"Homeland Security...it's about creating partnerships and sharing information...the measures we take to secure the homeland can lead to a safer world...and if done correctly, even more freedom..."
Former Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge

A Shared Solution for Worker Access Security

With the current threats in the security world, safeguarding worksites at sensitive facilities and critical infrastructures provides facility owners, contractors, labor, and private organizations with tough security challenges.

Knowing the identity of the contractors who enter each site is a priority. Many transient contractors work at multiple sites and facilities, each with its own security standards. That's why worksite-access security is understood to be a shared responsibility and calls for a shared solution.

The Technology Challenge

The challenge of personal identity verification in real time was twofold: securely managing individuals' critical information among organizations at different locations and specifically knowing who was on site as well as.

A system was needed that could authenticate workers' identity and credentials, verify they had a threat-free history, and that they met credential requirements for access. To control what worker had access where, information had to be securely shared among disconnected sites and organizations in real-time.

The Solution

The Secure Worker Access Consortium (SWAC) was developed as a response to this challenge. SWAC delivers turnkey services and technologies to verify, in real time, that workers are known and have a demonstrated threat-free history. This shared solution is highly cost-effective and responsive to the directives and guidelines put forth by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) list of Disqualifying Criminal Offenses as detailed in 49 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) 1542.209 and 1572.103.

Public agencies and private corporations who participate in SWAC cooperatively assure that the secure areas of their regulated facilities, infrastructures, and ports are accessed by individuals who are pre-screened and meet identity verification and criminal background investigations requirements.

Real-Time Technology Group's patent-pending Real-Time Verification3 (RTV3™) technology provides the platform that drives SWAC. RTV3 collects, processes, and securely manages members' sensitive personal information. This technology delivers the interoperability, security, and trustworthiness required by the federal government and provides credential management, real-time identity verification, and data-sharing capabilities on a strict need-to-know-basis.

Member privacy remains a priority with SWAC. As a highly secure internet application, RTV3 enables accurate real-time verification of anyone that seeks access to a sensitive facility. All data is encrypted and protected from unauthorized viewing at all points of information collection, processing, and storage. Permission-based access to personal information is limited to security professionals. Access to data is strategically driven by the unique identity verification requirements of each participating facility.

The SWAC program is used to assure that contracted workers who access sensitive worksites in the metro area such as the World Trade Center complex, NY/NJ airports, rail and bus terminals, bridges, and other transportation facilities are known and threat free. Transportation agencies such as the Port Authority of NY & NJ (PANYNJ), Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), and NJ Transit (NJT) now strategically partner with regional labor organizations and contractors to mitigate risk, develop a trusted community, and cooperatively improve regional security.

The Benefits

RTV3 enables SWAC members to establish personnel assurance standards against which workers can be measured and verified.
RTV3 solves the key problem of interoperability among disconnected business partners.
RTV3 enables facility owners and their labor partners to cooperatively strengthen regional security by providing real-time identity and credential verification of their organized work forces.

The result is a rapidly growing, trusted contractor community ready to safely service the region's critical infrastructures.

For more information visit www.secureworker.com