HID Global announced this week that it’s expanding its product offerings in the area of logical access control, with new solutions for converging security environments. HID on the Desktop, for instance, enables a single HID card to both open physical doors and also open Microsoft Windows on a PC. In the past, this would require two separate cards. With HID on the Desktop, the user just needs an HID card or token along with an OMNIKEY reader and HID’s naviGO software.

OMNIKEY readers provide seamless interoperability between smart cards and PCs. The latest offering is the OMNIKEY 6321, which is a “dongle” reader with a USB connection. The OMNIKEY 6321 supports the use of contactless smart cards for highly secure two-factor authentication in mobile computing environments.
HID Global’s naviGO software package is a user-friendly platform that allows organizations to use their existing access control cards for highly-secure two-factor authentication on PCs.