HID Global praised in KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass Report

“HID Global continues to evolve our multifaceted authentication platform and ecosystem integrations to drive an unparalleled user experience for employees and millions of consumers globally,” explained Martin Ladstaetter, vice-president of product management for Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions at HID Global. “Being recognised as the top challenger overall and a leader in the market leadership category demonstrates that we’re successfully delivering against our vision of a frictionless user experience serving both consumers and enterprise customers alike, while adding new services such as identity verification or risk management.”

KuppingerCole cited the following strengths of HID Global and its HID Authentication Platform: 

*FIDO 2.0 certified

*easy-to-use flow chart style management and policy authoring interface 

*comprehensive device intelligence can be collected using secure SDK 

*has identity assurance and strong credentialing capabilities 

*risk engine can output to payment processing services 

*hardware token manufacturer, supplier to OEMs

The report advises that: “Organisations in highly regulated industries with high security requirements, and those with physical access controls integration requirements, should consider HID Global.” It also states: “HID Global has been a strong player in Government and enterprise workforce IAM solutions for many years. The company’s inclusion of identity vetting and credentialing services is a valuable differentiating factor in its solution.” 

Approximately 90% of Fortune 500 companies use HID Global’s solutions and the company has issued more than 500 million secure credentials to date. In the banking sector, HID has supplied secure identity solutions to more than 120 of the world’s leading banks, including the General Data Protection Regulation native authentication platform serving millions of consumers globally. 

The company is also a globally trusted Certificate Authority that protects global transactions, while its authenticators simplify regulatory compliance with Open Banking regulations.

Authentication platform

In recent years, HID Global has expanded upon its solution ecosystem to bring new dimensions of value to its IAM customers through an authentication platform that’s intelligent, scalable and intuitive. 

The company is also uniquely positioned to help organisations unite the management of cyber and physical identities and access in a single platform such that they can solve complex authentication challenges while meeting demand for easier and frictionless methods. 

HID Global offers a choice of cloud-hosted, on-premise and hybrid deployments that support all types of end user requirements and authentication factor options, while in tandem demonstrating quick and continuous return on investment.

*Click here to view the KuppingerCole report, here for more information about the HID Authentication Platform for consumer authentication and here for the HID WorkforceID Authentication solution