Texas-based HID has reached an agreement to acquire Vancouver, Canada-based logical access control provider IDmelon to upgrade its portfolio of FIDO authentication offerings. The addition of IDmelon’s technology enables HID to easily implement customers’ physical access cards and mobile devices as FIDO2 security keys, according to the joint announcement.

IDmelon software users can turn existing identifiers like biometrics, physical credentials and smartphones into enterprise-grade FIDO security keys. IDmelon also provides hardware to support passkeys and other FIDO standards for secure and convenient access control.


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