Convenience meets Security on the Desktop

The most obvious and primary component of HID on the Desktop is the “converged” card–a single credential that can be used as a photo ID badge, as a “key” that opens doors and as a second authentication factor for logging into the IT infrastructure.

HID on the Desktop solutions are:

• Simple and convenient to use
• Able to improve risk management
• Easy to install and maintain
• Reliable and secure

Sphinx provides the logon security you need, with the simplicity you want. Sphinx turns an ID card or token into a secure two-factor authentication tool, and makes it easy to use strong passwords for logon processes.

In continuous use at a substantial installed base of government, corporate, educational, and healthcare institutions world-wide. Works out-of-the-box with a diversity of powerful card technologies. Straight-forward software pricing structure is based on number of end-user licenses, with no additional hidden costs.

Available in Stand-alone, Enterprise, or Enterprise PKI versions for the Windows environment.

ActivIdentity is a global leader in strong authentication and credential management, providing solutions to confidently establish a person’s identity when interacting digitally. ActivIdentity helps organizations address their unique needs by providing critical building blocks for securing IT infrastructures and digital transactions.

ConCERTO provides your company with a cost effective way to ensure privacy, and prevent data breaches. With it's secure identification platform, a wide range of applications can be supported. Open architecture allows additional applications to be added for a tailored solution that will fit your company's requirements.

The new CHIPDRIVE® MyKey™ was especially developed for notebook users to automatically and easily protect their privacy and sensitive data.

Sensitive information – for example passwords and personal information – are stored on a smart card in plug-in format (ID-000).

Charismathics is closely working with its partners to enable our customer's architectures to work properly, reliable and secure. Hence, and before releasing them for use, we run our products in outstanding and exeptional environments to ensure an overall product compliance and a maximum of technical acceptance and stability.

Our software also supports the pre-boot environments of all major hard disk encryption (HDE) software, not only by stored credentials, but X.509 certificate-based strong authentication mechanisms. This makes your hardware choice for tokens independent of the software in use!

Imprivata has become well known in the identity management field by simplifying, and securing, user access. They have also perfected the function of single sign on. With single sign on, a user only has to enter their password one time to gain access to all of the applications they are permitted to use. This increases productivity since users are not continuously prompted for passwords at various websites and applications. Another positive aspect to single sign on, is that IT personal do not have to be overwhelmed by users that forget their multiple passwords.

The Tiers of Trust program was designed to ease the burden of the unfunded mandate to comply with FIPS 201 for interoperability. Compliance with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) keeps a jurisdiction eligible for federal preparedness grants. A team of leading security companies has banded together and assembled their GSA-approved FIPS 201 products into a system for issuance and usage of First Responder Access Credentials (FRAC).

The Gemalto .NET smart card is natively supported in Windows Vista and works as a seamless companion to the Microsoft .NET environment and service-oriented architectures. It runs a streamlined version of the .NET Framework to provide customizable two-factor authentication, full cryptographic capabilities and support for on-card applications and services seamlessly within the Windows® environment. Now, organizations can easily leverage Gemalto's advanced smart card technology to secure their networks from end to end while dramatically reducing implementation costs and complexity.

The Windows 2000 Smart Card Log On includes everything you need to secure your PC and enhance client authentication to a network domain. The Windows 2000 Log On utilizes digital certificates that are generated and loaded onto the card. It is specially designed for Windows 2000 networks (only).