Advanced Authentication

HID Global’s advanced authentication product suite provides versatile, flexible, and highly scalable solutions for securing access to government and corporate systems and online consumer services. These solutions help organizations meet compliance requirements and industry-standard guidance for strong, layered authentication and secure audit trails.

HID Authentication Service

HID Global's cloud identity platform provides a suite of cloud services to deliver trusted authentication for regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services as well as government and critical infrastructure, where high security is crucial. These services make it easy to establish, create, manage and use identities through a secure cloud delivery model.

The HID Authentication Service provides a secure and scalable authentication platform for trusted identity, along with HID's mobile authentication solution, HID Approve™.

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ActivID® Appliance

The ActivID Appliance supports multi-factor authentication with all leading mobile phones and tablets and provides a flexible platform that can grow with changing needs. Built-in support for open protocols ensures that it can be easily integrated into any enterprise infrastructure, cloud-based service and/or internet banking engine.

It also supports HID Approve™, a push-notification based multi-factor authentication solution that delivers a simple and secure way for you to validate transactions and authenticate.

Available releases:

8.4 | 8.5 | 8.6

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ActivID Authentication Server

The ActivID Authentication Server supports multi-factor authentication with all leading mobile phones and tablets and provides a flexible platform that can grow with the authentication needs of any business.

It also supports HID Approve™, a push-notification based multi-factor authentication solution that delivers a simple and secure way for you to validate transactions and authenticate.

Available releases:

8.4 | 8.5 | 8.6

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ActivID AAA Server v7.0

HID Global's ActivID AAA Server for Remote Access is trusted by thousands of organizations to provide multi-factor authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) of remote users. It ensures those organizations can trust user identities and grant appropriate access to remote networks and applications.

The ActivID AAA Server for Remote Access supports a broad range of multi-factor authentication devices, including software authentication tokens for all leading mobile phones and tablets. It is easy to install, deploy and manage, and its features include a Web-based self-service portal to help reduce costly IT help desk calls.

User profiles:

Administrator | User

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HID Approve™ SDK

HID Approve is a next-generation multi-factor authentication solution that combines the security of public key-based cryptography with the convenience of mobile push notifications.

HID Approve delivers a simple and secure way for users to authenticate and verify their transactions.

The HID Approve Software Development Kit (SDK) is a key component of the push-based validation solution whereby logon requests and actions (such as money transfers) can be digitally signed using cryptographic keys stored on a customer’s mobile device.

The HID Approve SDK communicates with the HID Authentication PlatformClosedHID Authentication Service, ActivID Appliance or ActivID Authentication Server for provisioning and signing. It is hosted on the mobile device and embedded into the customer’s mobile application.

Available releases:

4.8 (Windows-only) | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.5/5.5.x | 5.7.x | 5.9 | 5.10 | 5.11

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HID Temenos® Infinity Component

The HID Temenos Infinity Component enables you to easily integrate with the HID Authentication PlatformClosedHID Authentication Service, ActivID Appliance or ActivID Authentication Server that is available as a service or on-premise solution.

The HID Authentication Platform is used by banks worldwide to secure critical assets, so that organizations can stay ahead of ever-changing regulation requirements and threat landscape, without disrupting user experience and productivity.

The solution supports a wide range of authentication factors including hardware tokens and HID Approve™ (a push-notification based multi-factor authentication (MFA) and transaction signature solution leveraging public key cryptography). HID Approve™ is available as a stand-alone application or as an SDK.

Available releases:

6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0

ActivID Device Initialization Tool

The ActivID Device Initialization Tool is a standalone Windows-based application that provides a set of services and management, around the ActivID authentication devices, such as:

  • Configuration of the device with a set of existing profiles (security services, behavior, etc.) or with new ones. Typically, local initialization of devices allows you to secure your own sets of security keys to which no other party has access, including HID Global.
  • Management of the device credential (import, export, encryption).
  • Defining access rights to the console, reinforcing the database protection, and providing audit services.

Available releases:

4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3