Ranjit Nambiar,
Director of Sales, IAM, HID Global
HID Global has structured its portfolio to meet the demand in a number of emerging/future market growth areas. The foundation is the iCLASS SE platform powered by Seos, which simplifies how identities are created, used and managed across a broad range of applications, and provides compatibility with microprocessor-based credentials, including cards, smartphones and other mobile devices. We also are extending our portfolio through strategic acquisitions such as IdenTrust for secure authentication solutions, and Lumidigm, which provides the opportunity for HID Global to extend proven biometric technology beyond finger- and hand-based applications into iris, facial and other smart imaging systems.
We also see new market opportunities as the industry moves in the following directions:
Beyond cards to smartphones: Users are increasingly mobile and bringing their own devices (BYOD) into the organization’s environment, using smartphones, laptops and tablets to access the resources they need. This will make it possible for smartphones to grant access to everything from the door, to data, to the cloud.
Beyond readers to “tap-in” access convenience: As users are able to carry more types of credentials on a smart card or phone, they will be able to simply tap them to a personal tablet or laptop for authenticating to a network.
Beyond Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology to simplified solutions for higher security: The advent of Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) cards enables organizations to implement strong authentication for accessing data and opening doors, without having to purchase certificates from a trust anchor or pay annual maintenance fees as they do with PKI-based government Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards.
