HID Global, a worldwide leader in providing solutions for the delivery of secure identity, recently launched ‘HID on the Desktop’ during a half day event held at Hotel Leela Palace in Bangalore, India, before an audience of 150 Security & IT integrators and end-users.
A powerful set of logical access control solutions that can extend the reach of an organization’s existing physical access infrastructure, ‘HID on the Desktop’ mirrors the secure and convenient user experience popularized by the company’s physical access control platforms to deliver user-friendly convenience and improved risk management for secure access to Windows.
“HID on the Desktop was created in response to the increasing customer demand for a solution that could secure access to buildings and IT network with a single card,” said Tim Phipps, director of business development, Identity and Access Management (IAM), HID Global, Asia Pacific. “This powerful set of solutions provides risk-appropriate authentication to IT networks and the connected computers, leveraging the existing physical access credentials in a secure, cost-effective and convenient fashion.”
Leverage existing physical access cards
‘HID on the Desktop’ represents a bold departure from the product positioning and value propositions offered by other strong authentication solutions on the market. Built out of a need to balance ease-of-use, cost and diverse security requirements, this economical solution allows organizations to leverage existing physical access cards, enabling physical access control integrators to use HID technology to provide customers with complementary logical access solutions.
‘HID on the Desktop’ solutions demystify strong (multi-factor) authentication for both the end-user and the administrator, enabled by the use of a single credential for both physical and logical access. A three-component solution (HID cards, OMNIKEY readers and naviGO software), HID on the Desktop provides corporate enterprises with the flexibility to deploy the most “risk-appropriate” authentication method.
Depending on the employee role or job function, a single system can be used to manage different methods of log-on security supporting two-factor authentication (using PIN and card).
A key innovative component of the ‘HID on the Desktop’ solution is naviGO software, which extends the Windows authentication model to include HID PROX and iCLASS contactless cards, allowing users the ability to use their existing HID access control badge to log on to Windows. In addition, naviGO allows card holders to manage their own enrollment, establish and manage their PIN and provides emergency.
“With ‘HID on the Desktop’, we are able to deliver user-friendly convenience and risk management in a simple solution, enabling end-users to utilize their existing access control card and extend its reach to allow them to authenticate and logon to their PC,” said Ranjit Nambiar, director of sales, HID Global India. “We believe that customers will greatly benefit from the increased cost savings, greater security and control, increased functionality, user convenience and productivity, and better compliance to their organizations by deploying HID on the Desktop.”
“HID on the Desktop is designed to provide convenience for the user with a higher level of security of two-factor strong authentication to the company’s IT network,” added Craig Sandness, managing director, Asia-Pacific.