HID Global announced the completion of its parent company ASSA ABLOYs acquisition of ActivIdentity. The acquisition will expand HID Globals logical access offering and create a unique portfolio of converged physical and logical access solutions. These solutions will enable existing and future enterprise, financial services and government customers to meet their security and compliance requirements with the industrys broadest range of user authentication products.

ActivIdentitys solutions are used to confidently establish a persons identity for digital interactions, also known as logical access control. There 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 organizations intellectual property and information assets.

HID Global has long been recognized as the security industry leader in physical access control and secure card issuance, said Denis Hébert, president and CEO with HID Global. Now, with the addition of ActivIdentitys 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 HIDs Global Identity and Access Management business, ActivIdentity will extend HIDs logical access control offering to include identity assurance products that help commercial and government organizations defend against security threats and meet compliance requirements while streamlining their infrastructure and simplifying the user experience. HID Globals acquisition of ActivIdentity reinforces the companys continuing commitment to its served markets, with three key objectives:

Extend ActivIdentitys current identity assurance solutions for enterprise markets with new, innovative capabilities.
Further expand HIDs government business to include a fully compliant suite of credential assurance and logical-physical access verification products that are already trusted worldwide by millions of government employees, across hundreds of agencies.
Combine ActivIdentitys strengths in user authentication for online banking and commerce with HID Globals industry-leading payment solutions to offer a more complete portfolio for the fast-growing mobile commerce and banking markets.
The ActivIdentity acquisition will create opportunities for current HID Global and ActivIdentity channel partners to grow their businesses with Genuine HID by delivering integrated physical and logical authentication solutions that leverage the appliance-based ActivIdentity 4TRESS Authentication Server, ActivIdentity Credential Management System, and HID Globals physical access solutions. HID Global recognizes the value that the ActivIdentitys VAR, VAD, integrator and managed service channels can play in realizing its vision of delivering integrated physical and logical authentication solutions.