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HID rolls out access control readers and contactless smart cards

Friday 2 September 2011 09:35 CET | News

US secure identity services company HID Global has made available a new generation of access control readers and credentials based on the company’s new iCLASS SIO technology-enabled (SE) platform.

This platform introduces technology-independent digital credentials that can be deployed for use on smart phones, microprocessor-based cards, contactless smart cards, USB tokens and related devices.

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. iCLASS SE provides users with the ability to dynamically increase security levels via firmware updates and efficiently address future changes in requirements as they occur.

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.


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Keywords: HID, access control readers, contactless smart card, iCLASS SIO, SE platform
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