Converged Credentials Solution Bridging Physical and Logical Identity
HID Converged Credentials allows organizations to secure their facilities and manage employee identities and credentials through a single, unified platform. Designed to give security teams a practical path to modernize their identity architecture, the solution consolidates physical and logical access under a single phishing-resistant credential.
For most organizations, securing a building and securing a network are treated as two separate disciplines, often with separate vendors and separate credentials. An employee may badge into the office with one card, log into their computer with a password and authenticate to cloud applications with another method. With different systems and credentials operating in isolation, the potential points of failure multiply, creating gaps that are difficult to audit and expensive to manage.
At the same time, the threat landscape is evolving, with AI-enabled attack methods making credential-based vulnerabilities harder to ignore. Organizations that unify how they govern identity across physical and logical environments are better positioned to stay ahead of those risks. "Our customers have trusted us to secure their facilities for decades. HID Converged Credentials is a direct response to what they're telling us: they want fewer vendors, less complexity and a credential that works everywhere, from the front door to the desktop and the cloud", said Daniel Gundlach, Vice President and Head of Business Unit, NAM - PACS, at HID.
According to HID’s 2026 State of Security and Identity Report, which surveyed more than 1,500 end users and industry partners, 75% of organizations have already deployed or are actively evaluating converged identity solutions. Identity management ranked as the top strategic priority across all categories surveyed, with 73% of physical security professionals identifying it as a leading trend and 60% planning to increase investment in this area. Yet despite a clear demand, 52% still cite the complexity of managing fragmented identity systems as their greatest barrier to progress.
HID Converged Credentials addresses the challenges of fragmented identity management by consolidating physical and logical access onto a single, standards-based credential. Using the same card or security token they already carry, employees can badge through a secured door and log in to their workstation and enterprise applications, without passwords, without friction and without security teams having to manage multiple identity systems.
Built to support FIDO2 and PKI standards, the solution brings phishing-resistant authentication to both physical and logical environments. For security administrators, it means unified visibility across all access points, simplified compliance and auditing, and the ability to provision or revoke access seamlessly.
HID Converged Credentials is available in multiple form factors to fit the way organizations and their employees actually work, such as Crescendo smart cards, portable FIDO2/PKI authenticators for high-assurance access to workstations and cloud applications, or compact NFC-enabled readers that extend converged access to workstations and environments where carrying a phone is not practical.
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