HID Announces Converged Credentials Solution to Bridge Physical & Logical Identity Across the Enterprise
HID, a provider of trusted identity solutions, launched HID Converged Credentials. This solution 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, reducing vendor complexity and strengthening security posture without disrupting existing infrastructure.
“Our customers have trusted HID to secure their facilities for decades,” said Daniel Gundlach, vice president and head of business unit, NAM – PACS, HID. “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. We’re uniquely positioned to deliver that, because identity is in our DNA.”
This sentiment is widely shared across the industry. 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 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.
“Security teams today are looking for solutions that reduce complexity without compromising protection,” said Sean Dyon, vice president and head of authentication, HID. “HID Converged Credentials delivers on both fronts, giving employees one credential to access the building, their workstation and applications, while making credential management simpler and more efficient for organizations.”
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