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Hirsch’s Lars Suneborn Appointed to Lead Rewrite of RTCA National Airport
Access Control Standards
Santa Ana, Calif., November 8, 2011 – Hirsch Electronics, a leading security systems
manufacturer and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV)
announces Lars Suneborn, Director of the Government Program Group for Hirsch, will lead the
RTCA (Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) Subcommittee SC 224 effort to update the
RTCA DO230 Integrated Security System Standard for Airport Access Control.
A thirty‐year veteran of the identity management and access control industries, Suneborn will
lead the RTCA subcommittee through a complete overhaul and revision of physical access
control system performance standards for the U.S. air transport industry. Last updated in
February 2008, these standards provide guidance to airports nationwide on the
implementation of airport staff security systems including identity management and
credentials, physical access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance. The official
standards advisory council will meet several times over the next 16 months.
Suneborn stated, “The justification for the rewrite reflects the emergence of new smart cards,
identity management and credential technology along with the impact modern technologies
and innovations have on physical access control systems. Technology improvements have been
so significant the most effective approach is a comprehensive redraft of the standards.”
Along with the committee’s security industry experts, key personnel from FAA, TSA, AAAE, ACC,
ACI, DHS and additional industry‐associated individuals will be invited to attend and observe.
The presence of influential aviation decision‐makers allows for complete, comprehensive
understanding of the new access control standards as they are developed, easing future
implementation of the guidelines by the aviation industry. “The idea here,” Suneborn
explained, “is to provide uniformity of standards across the industry so that the federal funding
process for critical access control improvements can be streamlined.” The new policies can be
used by both commercial and private airports, airstrips, landing fields and other industry‐
related facilities.
About Hirsch:
Hirsch, a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt: INV), manufactures
integrated security and identity systems for worldwide markets. Hirsch’s award‐winning
solutions incorporate access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, digital certificates,

2. smart cards and biometrics in order to successfully secure facilities, digital assets and electronic
transactions. For more information, please visit www.HirschElectronics.com.
Identive Group, Inc. is a leading provider of products, services and solutions for the security,
identification and RFID industries. For more information, please visit www.identive‐group.com.
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Contacts:
Hirsch:
Cristina Rivera David Feingold
+1 949 250‐8888 ext. 148 +1 949 250‐8888 ext. 222
crivera@hirschelectronics.com davidf@hirschelectronics.com
Identive Group:
Darby Dye Annika Oelsner
+1 949 553‐4251 +49 89 9595 5220
ddye@identive‐group.com aoelsner@identive‐group.com