HID Global Crescendo Smart Cards

Crescendo Card Smart Card Series

Crescendo Cards serve as corporate badges that secure both physical facility access and passwordless login to digital enterprise resources. Easy to deploy, the Crescendo Card Series features FIDO2-certified smart cards that support standards like PIV and PKI, helping organizations implement a Zero Trust security model that adapts to evolving technologies and regulations.

Crescendo Cards support embedded physical access technologies like Seos®, iCLASS SR®, MIFARE® DESFire®, MIFARE Classic, and Prox, making them ideal for use as physical access badges. They prioritize data privacy by complying with key regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, LBA, and NERC-CIP. The Crescendo line also includes security keys (NFC, USB-A, USB-C) that enable strong multi-factor and passwordless authentication with support for FIDO, PKI, and OATH.

Key Benefits:

• The Crescendo Framework — Issue and manage the credential lifecycle from a single platform. One PIN can be used across multiple access technologies.
• Dual Interface Corporate Badge – Use a single smart card as a photo ID for network, cloud authentication and physical access.
• High Assurance – Align with the recommendations of NIST SP 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines, using devices that allow you to reach authentication assurance level

Multi-Protocol:

• PKI — Utilizes defense grade authentication
• FIDO – Securely accesses online and cloud services such as Microsoft Entra ID, G Suite or Dropbox Business without preinstalled software
• OATH – Leverages open universal authentication standard for One Time Password (OTP)