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HID® Crescendo®

Secure doors, data and applications with strong authentication

Boost Workforce Productivity and Security

Protect your organization from unnecessary risks while boosting workforce security and productivity. Whether it is the Crescendo Cards or Keys, the Crescendo portfolio provides convenient and secure authentication.

Key Benefits

Ease of Use

Empower your workforce with passkeys or certificate-based authenticators to access business applications and doors and a shared or isolated PIN for FIDO and PKI.

Flexibility

Maximize your security investment with the widest range of authentication methods and form factors, including a remote device unlock and PIN reset capability for FIDO and PKI.

Expertise

Leverage HID’s over 20 years of expertise as a provider of smart cards, digital certificates and life cycle management to tailor unique passwordless journeys.

Find the Right Fit for Your Employees

Crescendo Key Series

Crescendo Keys provide strong multi-factor and passwordless authentication, enhancing remote workforce security while eliminating the need for a smart card reader for employees on the go.

Crescendo Card Series

Crescendo Cards can be used as a universal credential — a corporate badge that offers both physical access to facilities and passwordless access to digital enterprise resources, like workstation log-in and network access.

HID Enhances Security and Productivity with Crescendo Cards at French Office

At HID, we put our smart cards to the test—right in our own workplace! Our French office team recently conducted real-world testing of Crescendo Cards, providing invaluable feedback that enhances both security and productivity.

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Step Up Your Security

Designed to be easy and fast to deploy, the Crescendo portfolio enables organizations to adopt a Zero Trust security approach, protecting personal and corporate data while meeting compliance and cybersecurity requirements, such as CJIS and NIS2. The portfolio includes FIDO2, PKI and OATH for logical access.

Crescendo authenticators can be used both as stand-alone products or with our multi-factor authentication ecosystem, such as the Credential Management System (CMS) and DigitalPersona®, for organizations looking for a large-scale security implementation and for highly regulated industries.

What Sets Us Apart

Dual Interface Corporate Badge

We provide one smart card for logical and physical access, with the broadest range of physical access technologies in one device.

End-to-End Solution

HID covers the entire authentication journey — from credential enrollment, life cycle management and certificate authority to smart cards and keys, readers, middleware and card printers.

Adaptability

HID offers authentication methods and physical authenticators that best fit your use case — including contact and contactless options for FIDO and PKI.

High Assurance

We deliver authentication assurance level in strictly regulated industries, as per the NISP SP 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines.

Calculate Your ROI With FIDO2 Credentials

Research shows that password-related cybercrime is still on the rise and the average cost of a data breach is nearly 4.5 million dollars. Phishing-resistant Crescendo Cards and Keys lower this risk and provide your company with substantial cost savings.

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