Manufacturer HID Global announced the completion of its parent company ASSA ABLOY’s acquisition of ActivIdentity.
The firm says the acquisition will expand HID Global’s logical access offering and create a portfolio of converged physical and logical access solutions.
ActivIdentity’s products are used to establish a person’s identity for digital interactions, also known as logical access control. The manufacturer says demand 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 organisation’s intellectual property and information assets.
Denis Hébert, president and CEO with HID Global, said: “HID Global has long been recognised as the security industry leader in physical access control and secure card issuance. 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 organisations defend against security threats and meet compliance requirements while streamlining their infrastructure and simplifying the user experience.
