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HID Global Streamlines Student ID Issuance and Increases Security at the University of Connecticut
HID Global announced that the University of Connecticut (UConn) has selected its Seos smart cards and HID FARGO Connect secure issuance solution to optimize student services and strengthen security across its five-campus network. The HID FARGO Connect cloud-based platform enables UConn to decentralize ID issuance and eliminate student wait times, while Seos technology eliminates the vulnerabilities of its legacy system.
HID Global Launches Compact OMNIKEY 5127CK Reader Core to Further Accelerate and Broaden the Partner Ecosystem
HID Global announced the launch of its smallest embedded reader module, the OMNIKEY 5127CK Reader Core. The latest addition to the proven OMNIKEY family makes it possible for systems integrators, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and other partners to embed RFID into devices with limited physical space to accurately authenticate people, reduce fraud and protect sensitive data in a contactless way.
HID Global Extends Industry’s Broadest Portfolio of Open- Architecture Controllers for Access Control with The New HID Aero Platform
HID Global announced that it has extended its open-architecture controller line with the introduction of HID Aero. Building on the proven success of its Mercury intelligent controller platform delivering total security beyond the door, HID Aero extends flexibility and access control choices to a wide range of businesses, while future-proofing an organization’s investment as requirements change.
HID Global Enables Employee Verification, Bolsters Security for Newmont’s Remote Polymetallic Mine in Mexico
HID Global announced it has collaborated with software company Alutel Mobility to power employee authentication at Newmont’s polymetallic mine in northeastern Mexico. HID’s OMNIKEY readers, Seos credentials, and Alutel Mobility’s solution with RAGTAB tablets and Alutel’s mobile app, allow Newmont to safeguard and monitor multiple entry points and car access at rural and underground mine locations, which are often impossible to equip with readers and lack internet connectivity.
HID Global Empowers Workplaces to Safely Re-Open by Automating Employee Social Distancing and Contact Tracing
As organizations around the world resume operations, new requirements for creating a safe workplace for employees are driving the need to automate approaches to manage employee social distancing and conduct contact tracing. HID Global announced landmark additions to its HID Location Services IoT ecosystem that simplify and streamline managing these protocols, and drive compliance to federal, state and local requirements to help prevent workplace exposure to COVID-19.
HID Global Introduces Its WorkforceID Cloud Platform That Digitally Transforms Physical and Cyber Identity Management
HID Global announced its new WorkforceID platform that enables a seamless, effortless experience when using identity credentials to access physical and digital workplaces. The new ISO27001-certified identity cloud service platform simplifies how employees access what they need to do their jobs, while solving workplace and visitor security, regulatory compliance and a variety of new business challenges as employees are returning to work.
HID Global Introduces Solution for Emergency Badging Amid Today’s Global Health Crisis
Organizations today are facing an urgent need to rapidly onboard hundreds of key employees, such as medical, nursing and other staff members, on a daily basis across multiple facilities. HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, has introduced an emergency badging solution to help manage the secure issuance and administration of staff badges and access control credentials as they navigate the current health crisis.
HID Global Seos Smart Cards Bring Convenience, Security to Werkspace Co-working Office in Indonesia
HID Global announced that it has been selected by Jakarta-based service office provider, Werkspace Indonesia, to power its access control system, allowing several hundred users to access their co-working space conveniently and securely. Werkspace is one of the fastest-growing co-working space providers in Jakarta, and currently serves both startups and established businesses who need professional, reliable and secure working space.
HID Global Unveils Signature Line of Readers HID Signo
HID Global announced the launch of HID® Signo™, its signature line of readers that creates a new industry benchmark for the most adaptable, interoperable and secure approach to access control. The new readers dramatically simplify system deployment and management, meet the advanced security requirements of today’s dynamic environments and set organizations up for smarter, more connected access control.
HID Global Extends Passwordless FIDO2 Authentication Throughout the Workplace
HID Global announced it will support the industry’s passwordless authentication initiative at RSA 2020 by demonstrating converged access solutions that extend zero trust security and FIDO2 authentication across the workplace in the physical and digital worlds. The company’s solutions, including smart cards, an expanded USB key family and an updated cloud-based credential management service, are among the first to help realize the industry’s vision for a passwordless future.
HID Global to Showcase Seamless Access Control Experiences Using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Technology at CES 2020
HID Global showcases a new world of more seamless and secure access experiences using Ultra-Wideband technology at CES 2020. With the growing use of smartphones for mobile access plus UWB technology in place, a user can simply approach a door and opens it automatically—all without additional intervention or any intentional action from the user. The door automatically locks when the user is on the outside of the designated secure area.
Argentina Selects HID goID Technology to Provide Citizens with World’s First Mobile National ID Program
HID Global announced that the government of Argentina has selected its HID goID to power the country’s digital version of its mandatory National Identity Document. The collaborative effort between HID, Argentina’s Ministry of Interior, Public Works and Housing through the National Registry of Persons (Renaper), and the Ministry of Modernization makes Argentina the first country in the world to offer a true national identity credential within a mobile app to its citizens.
HID Global Expands Digital Certificate Family to Secure Downloaded Software
HID Global announced it has expanded its digital certificate family to offer an Extended Validation Code Signing certificate that protects software from tampering and forgery. Customers who download software that has been digitally signed with the IdenTrust® TrustID® EV CS certificates can identify the source and launch its applications or other code without receiving an “Unknown Publisher” warning.
HID Global Risk-Based User Authentication Solution Goes Live on Temenos MarketPlace
HID Global announced it has collaborated with Temenos to integrate HID’s risk-based authentication solution with Temenos Infinity and Temenos T24 Transact, the next generation in core banking. The joint offering, available on-premise or in the cloud, provides an agile, simplified path to secure digital banking, reducing the time and cost of delivering risk-based adaptive authentication, threat detection, and transaction signing on the Temenos platform.
HID Global and VMware Collaborate to Drive Mass Adoption of Mobile Access to Digital and Physical Workspaces
HID Global announced it is collaborating with VMware to drive mass adoption of mobile access to digital and physical places by adding HID Mobile Access for opening buildings and doors to VMware Workspace ONE, an intelligence-driven digital workspace platform for managing any app on any device. The collaboration will make it possible for Workspace ONE users, to more securely open doors with their smartphones as part of a unified mobile experience.
HID Global Helps Add the Security and Convenience of Fingerprint Biometric Authentication to the BigWise Stellar POS
HID Global has enabled BigWise to bring the security and convenience of biometrics to its retail and restaurant customers. BigWise went from concept to a pilot of its new biometric-enabled Stellar POS platform at a major customer within 30 days using the HID DigitalPersona® Fingerprint Biometric solution. Taking advantage of DigitalPersona’s intuitive biometric software development tools, BigWise added fingerprint biometrics to their POS offering in a matter of weeks.
HID Global Exhibits New Trusted Identity Solutions at GSX 2019
HID Global exhibits a host of new products, including biometrics at the door and new integrations at GSX 2019 HID booth. As a sponsor member of the recently launched FiRa™ Consortium, HID Global will feature a demonstration of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology. The company will also showcase its award-winning HID Mobile Access solution and Seos credential technology.
HID Global’s IdenTrust Digital Certificates Are Included in Adobe Approved Trust List
HID Global announced that its IdenTrust™ digital certificates are now certified members of the Adobe Approved Trust List (AATL) program, the world’s largest trust service for electronic documents. AATL certification allows millions of users to create digital signatures that are automatically identified as being trusted whenever the document is signed with Adobe® Acrobat® DC, Acrobat Reader® DC or Adobe Sign.
HID Global Announces Support for Student IDs in Apple Wallet
HID Global announced support for Seos® enabled student IDs in Apple Wallet. Beginning this fall, students, faculty and staff at Clemson University will be able to add their IDs to Apple Wallet and use their iPhone and Apple Watch to access buildings on campus, purchase meals and much more. To support student IDs in Apple Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch, HID provides Seos-enabled credentials, HID iCLASS SE and HID OMNIKEY readers.
HID Global Helps Put ID Cards and Documents into the Hands of Millions Throughout Africa
The latest additions to HID Global’s portfolio address the challenges African nations face in issuing credentials to remote locations while also serving high-volume needs of large metropolitan areas. The company’s HID FARGO Connect solution enables ID cards to be issued from anywhere and any device via a web interface in a trusted environment, changing the paradigm for governments whose citizens live in distant, hard-to-reach locations with limited infrastructure.