HID Security access systems

HID Global Launches Secure Identity Services
HID Global Launches Secure Identity Services

HID Global has significantly expanded its offering of on-demand card badging services to create the industry’s first all-in-one, web-based source for all credential provisioning and management requirements for traditional badges on plastic cards, for tokens, and for digital credentials that can be carried on NFC-enabled smartphones.   HID Global’s Secure Identity Services is a comprehensive suite of web-based services that help customers address every aspect of provisioning and managing personalized, secure credentials, both today and in the future. This includes managing the daily flow of ID card badge requests and large-volume re-badging projects, combining multiple technology platforms onto one card, and deploying and managing mobile credentials carried on users’ NFC-enabled smartphones.  The first to deliver over-the-air mobile credential technology, HID Global currently offers mobile credential services on selected NFC-enabled BlackBerry smartphones used in the enterprise, and plans to expand these mobile services to support a broad range of credentials and NFC smartphone platforms across all major network operators. HID Global’s Secure Identity Services are available for cards, mobile devices and tokens. Card services include key management, anti-counterfeiting, custom graphics and full personalisation using a wide range of commercial credential technologies. The company also enables customers to meet all of the compliance requirements for issuing PIV-I cards used by federal agencies and their contractors. In addition to streamlining traditional badging projects, the new Secure Identity Services will also enable customers to augment and/or replace mechanical keys and traditional card badges with mobile credentials on NFC smartphones, while managing all credential needs from the same web-based portal using one convenient dashboard. Users can create secure identity for NFC-enabled handsets and digital keys using the service’s cloud-based portal in a managed-service context, and then provision them over the air onto their smartphones. These secure identities can be used to open residential locks, access on-line physical access control readers or NFC-enabled electromechanical locks and log on to PCs. All management can be performed over-the-air, including dynamic, context-based rule setting.  In the future, users will also be able to share digital cards and keys with authorized users via NFC “tap-n-give” provisioning, and generate one-time password (OTP) soft tokens for network access. HID Global’s Secure Identity Services are available now. Mobile services are also available now, for iCLASS credentials on BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Curve 9370 smartphones from Verizon Wireless, managed by administrators using BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). More information is available at here.

HID Global Brings Reliable Biometrics Authentication To The Door With New Fingerprint Reader
HID Global Brings Reliable Biometrics Authentication To The Door With New Fingerprint Reader

In the past, biometrics solutions for access control were often deployed with reduced security thresholds because their imaging technology, which routinely yielded false fingerprint rejections, resulted in long authentication queues at the door. HID Global’s new fingerprint reader, iCLASS SE® RB25F, merges credential excellence with HID’s globally-patented multispectral imaging technology to address the need for reliable biometric authentication and fuel broad adoption of biometrics at the door. The high-performance iCLASS SE RB25F provides an unrivalled experience by dramatically increasing image capture performance and fingerprint matching in under a second, significantly reducing delays that were previously symptomatic of biometric solutions. The reader contains HID’s Lumidigm® multispectral technology. The multispectral image read by the sensor includes surface, subsurface (subdermal) and liveness details making it the most forgiving, yet toughest-to-spoof fingerprint reader on the market. RB25F supports both template-on-card and template-in-device architecture, whilst carrying an IP67 rating for both indoor and outdoor use (-20°C to 66°C), and an IK09 rating for vandal resistance. Certified in several major geographies worldwide, the new iCLASS SE RB25F can be used with all popular industry-standard high frequency credential technologies including HID Mobile Access® Mobile IDs, Seos®, iCLASS SE®, iCLASS®, MIFARE DESFire®, and MIFARE® Classic.

HID EH400-K Single Door Networked Access Controller
HID EH400-K Single Door Networked Access Controller

HID Global®, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, recently announced the production release of its next generation EDGE EVO and VertX EVO™ controller platform that brings intelligence and decision-making to the door for advanced and highly customisable networked access control solutions.  EDGE EVO and VertX EVO offer an open and scalable development platform for the deployment of a wide range of access control functionality, including remote management options, real-time monitoring, report generation and a powerful custom rules engine that enables the use of the system hardware for complimentary applications.  Protecting the hardware investments of end user organizations, the new platform builds on the success of the company’s EDGE and VertX solutions and provides the most extensive access control architecture that delivers enhanced security features and superior performance with versatile installation and future upgrade options.  According to ARC Advisory Group, the physical security and access control market is experiencing a major shift toward IP-based solutions. “End users want ease of operation,” said Joseph Gillespie, principal author of ARC Advisory’s December 2011 study, “Physical Security and Access Control Systems for Industry Worldwide Outlook. They also want security solutions that are easier to expand, customize, and integrate with other solutions.  They want each part of the system to be optimized to work together, and to avoid integration and compatibility issues.  With its latest EDGE EVO and VertX EVO solutions, HID Global has shown its commitment to this approach and as the result can now offer more intelligent and valuable solutions to end users.” The scalability of the EDGE EVO and VertX EVO controller platform enables a comprehensive range of future access control functions that are interoperable with wireless locks and deliver enhanced security, such as implementations of highly advanced access rules, keypad door commands and large-scale anti-passback.  Additionally, VertX EVO controllers operate within the company’s Trusted Identity Platform® (TIP™).  These components will enable this version and future revisions of the controller platform to operate with fully trusted connections from host to controller to reader, substantially increasing security options for access control systems of the future. “HID Global’s EDGE EVO and VertX EVO controller platform, including a Developer Tool Kit with OPIN application programming interface (API), offers expanded capacity and higher performance, demonstrating our commitment to providing open solutions based on direct feedback from our partners,” said John Fenske, vice president of product marketing with HID Global. “The state-of-the-art features in our next generation IP-enabled platform emphasize HID Global’s dedication to driving market innovation to efficiently manage identities for access control while also ensuring our customers optimize their Genuine HID investment.” EDGE EVO and VertX EVO platform components include:  EDGE EVO Controllers, Reader/Controllers and IO Modules that enable higher security with an on-board encrypted Hi-O communication bus. EDGE EVO also broadens its worldwide usability of networked access control solutions with the addition of 12/24VDC lock support, mounting options and plug-and-play IO modules that extend IO at and behind the door. VertX EVO V1000 Controller and the V2000 Controller/Reader Interface solutions that expand cardholder capacity, decrease door transaction time and increase door uptime, while offering 100% plug-in compatibility with existing HID Global access control systems and associated V100, V200 and V300 downstream devices.  A comprehensive Developer Tool Kit (DTK) for developing to OPIN API when migrating from first generation EDGE and VertX or for new development using the latest platform.  The DTK is equipped pre-wired EDGE EVO Controller, VertX EVO V1000 and VertX interface boards and IO switchboard, as well as a full set of documentation.

HID SAFE™ Enterprise Physical Identity And Access Management Solution
HID SAFE™ Enterprise Physical Identity And Access Management Solution

Utilizes pre-defined rules and workflows for on-/off-boarding of identities, access provisioning/de-provisioning and access change management Allows users to manage various details of a physical identity including access card information, biographic and biometric details, results of security checks and logs of historical access usage Allows users to create spatial hierarchy of locations (sites), the underlying buildings, floors and associated areas for better access management Provides a central location to search and assign access levels for an identity across disparate physical access control systems (PACS) and specify details such as time schedule of access (24x7, business hours) Enables employees to make multiple physical security requests, such as new physical access requests and badge requests, using a self-service portal Aggregates access level information from disparate PACS and allows users to manage additional details typically not available in PACS, such as risk level, area owner, multiple approvers and pre-requisites for access (such as training for critical areas) Allows creation of access profiles, which automates assigning physical access using common identity attributes such as role, location and  department Allows authorized personnel to immediately terminate physical access of identities, using urgent termination, avoiding termination delays by HR personnel Maintains a complete audit trail of all transactions executed within the system and between HID SAFE Enterprise and external systems Delivers pre-defined reports based on access records and logs of identities for compliance reporting and security planning