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HID Crescendo Card

Smart cards that enhance your security with support for FIDO2, PKI, OATH, and physical access technologies.

Physical access

  • Corporate badges: Used as a physical ID for employees to access facilities
  • Building entry: Grants access to specific areas or the entire building.

Digital and logical access

  • IT network and system access: Secures access to on-premise and cloud-based IT networks, systems, and single sign-on (SSO) services.
  • Passwordless authentication: Works as a FIDO2 device to log into online applications without a password, using either NFC or USB with a PIN and proof of presence.
  • Workstation and PC login: Provides strong authentication for accessing personal and shared workstations.
  • Application access: Used for logging into cloud-based applications like Google Suite and DropBox Business. 
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Description

Crescendo provides organizations with seamless and secure employee authentication, ensuring that only authorized people can access sensitive information. HID Crescendo Cards offer strong multi-factor authentication (MFA) through a single corporate ID badge to access both facilities and digital enterprise resources.

HID Crescendo Card is designed to be easy and fast to deploy, Crescendo Cards are FIDO2 certified and support proven standards such as passkeys, PIV and PKI, enabling organizations to adopt a Zero Trust security strategy that evolves with security standards, technologies and industry regulations.

The Crescendo Card series from HID provides the following benefits.

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Seamlessly Secures Any Use Case

  • Effortless compliance while protecting on-premises and cloud-based enterprise resources with strong authentication to access:
    • IT networks, systems and single sign-on (SSO)
    • Online applications using FIDO technology or passkeys without having to install any software
  • Personal computers and shared workstations using Crescendo Cards
  • Digital signature, enabling users to verify the provenance of emails and documents
  • Data encryption allowing only authorized users to access sensitive information
  • Secure printing to ensure confidentiality and guarantee stronger data protection

Offers Converged Corporate Badge

  • Use a single smart card for visual identity, network, cloud authentication and physical access
  • Two different interfaces are available to support your dynamic needs: a dual (contact and contactless) interface configuration and/or an iCLASS® contactless interface

Supports Future-Proof Multiprotocol Standards

  • Support for multiple security standards such as FIDO2, OATH and PKI enable the highest level of security
  • FIPS 140-3 Level 3, validation in progress

A vital part of HID’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) ecosystem, Crescendo can be used in stand-alone mode or centrally managed by credential management systems provided by HID or by third parties.

It works in combination with ActivClient® and Crescendo middleware, as well as both cloud-based and on-premises authentication backend.

HID’s MFA portfolio — consisting of the Authentication Platform and enhanced functionalities like the Credential Management System (CMS), Crescendo SDK and Crescendo Manager — helps organizations improve their security posture, meet compliance requirements and create frictionless user experiences.

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