[11/30/11]
HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, announced the availability of its next generation access control readers and credentials based on the company's award-winning iCLASS SIO technology-enabled (SE) platform. This platform initiates a significant transformation in how secure identity is delivered and managed by introducing technology-independent digital credentials that can be deployed for use on smart phones, microprocessor-based cards, contactless smart cards, USB tokens and related devices.
The iCLASS SE platform is an essential building block in the access control industry's first Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled mobile identity and access management solutions, now being developed by various HID Global partners. Based on open standards to support a wide array of smart card technologies, HID Global's new access control platform supports iCLASS, MIFARE DESFire EV1 and other contactless smart card technologies. It extends physical access control beyond traditional cards and readers to enable deployment of mobile access with digital credentials. To accommodate constantly evolving security challenges, iCLASS SE provides users with the ability to dynamically increase security levels via simple firmware updates and efficiently address future changes
"The industry has made great progress in moving payment applications onto NFC smartphones and the next step will be to move from using smartcards in the traditional sense to carrying digital credentials for access control using NFC smartphones as well," said Lee Wei Jin, director of sales, ASEAN with HID Global. "Feedback from the ASEAN market is very encouraging, with many financial and educational institutions, enterprise organisations and end users excited about our NFC mobile access platform. HID Global sees significant promise for the growing adoption of utilizing NFC-enabled devices for physical access control, and we are working with telco providers to carry iCLASS SE technology on their NFC smartphones, enabling them to be used for access control, transit and other applications while also increasing overall system security."
Technical Details
HID Global's iCLASS SE access control platform is based on a combination of Secure Identity Object (SIO) technology on the credential side and the SIO Processor on the reader side which perform similar functions to traditional cards and readers, except they use a standards-based, technology-independent and flexible identity data structure that provides a new level of security, portability and performance.
SIO digital credentials operate within HID Global's Trusted Identity Platform (TIP) framework, which is designed to support a secure and trusted boundary for cryptographic key delivery in SIO technology-based access control applications. The TIP framework facilitates secure provisioning of SIO digital credentials on a variety of credential platforms, including mobile devices, no matter where users are located or how they are connected. SIO digital credentials also support data authenticity and privacy while inhibiting data cloning by binding information to a specific credential for additional authentication and encryption on top of device-specific security. These SIO digital credentials features enable the iCLASS SE platform to improve security in traditional card and reader applications while enabling new market opportunities for carrying secure portable credentials on NFC smart phones and other devices.
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