ActivIdentity Joins HID Global
HID Global Will Now Offer Industry's Broadest Range of Identity Assurance Solutions for Private and Public Sector, Worldwide
HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, recently announced the completion of its parent company ASSA ABLOY's acquisition of ActivIdentity. The acquisition will expand HID Global's logical access offering and create a unique portfolio of converged physical and logical access solutions. These solutions will enable existing and future enterprise, financial services and government customers to meet their security and compliance requirements with the industry's broadest range of user authentication products.
ActivIdentity's solutions are used to confidently establish a person's identity for digital interactions, also known as logical access control. There is growing demand to combine this capability with the kinds of solutions that HID has traditionally offered for physical access control and secure card issuance. These converged solutions will enable a single smart card to support multiple authentication methods and enforce policies throughout the enterprise, providing multilayered security across company networks, systems and facilities, protecting an organization's intellectual property and information assets.
"HID Global has long been recognized as the security industry leader in physical access control and secure card issuance," said Denis Hébert, president and CEO with HID Global. "Now, with the addition of ActivIdentity's market leadership in intelligent identity assurance and its broad portfolio of complementary credential management, strong authentication and security client products, we will be uniquely positioned to provide the integrated solutions that our customers need for physical and logical access convergence."
As part of HID's Global Identity and Access Management business, ActivIdentity will extend HID's logical access control offering to include identity assurance products that help commercial and government organizations defend against security threats and meet compliance requirements while streamlining their infrastructure and simplifying the user experience. HID Global's acquisition of ActivIdentity reinforces the company's continuing commitment to its served markets, with three key objectives:
- Extend ActivIdentity's current identity assurance solutions for enterprise markets with new, innovative capabilities.
- Further expand HID's government business to include a fully compliant suite of credential assurance and logical-physical access verification products that are already trusted worldwide by millions of government employees, across hundreds of agencies.
- Combine ActivIdentity's strengths in user authentication for online banking and commerce with HID Global's industry-leading payment solutions to offer a more complete portfolio for the fast-growing mobile commerce and banking markets.
The ActivIdentity acquisition will create opportunities for current HID Global and ActivIdentity channel partners to grow their businesses with Genuine HID by delivering integrated physical and logical authentication solutions that leverage the appliance-based ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Server, ActivIdentity Credential Management System, and HID Global's physical access solutions. HID Global recognizes the value that the ActivIdentity's VAR, VAD, integrator and managed service channels can play in realizing its vision of delivering integrated physical and logical authentication solutions.
About HID Global
HID Global is the trusted source for secure identity solutions for millions of customers around the world. Recognized for robust quality, innovative designs and industry leadership, HID Global is the supplier of choice for OEMs, system integrators, and application developers serving a variety of markets, including physical and logical access control, card personalization, e-government, cashless payment and industry and logistics. Headquartered in Irvine, California, HID Global has over 1,500 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. For more information, visit www.hidglobal.com.
About ActivIdentity
ActivIdentity, now part of HID Global, is a worldwide leader in intelligent identity assurance, providing solutions to confidently establish trust in online identities. Over the past 20 years, the most security conscious organizations around the world have trusted ActivIdentity to safeguard their most critical assets and help them meet compliance requirements. ActivIdentity provides cost-effective, easy to deploy identity assurance solutions, which allow organizations to meet a wide range of business and security requirements. ActivIdentity is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. For more information, visit www.actividentity.com.
SOURCE: HID Global