[November 19, 2014]

HID Global Continues Expansion of the Seos Ecosystem with New Strategic Enterprise Application Partners

HID Global^®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, today announced the addition of new strategic partners who have joined the company's Enterprise Application Partners program during the third calendar quarter, further expanding the ecosystem of available products that are powered by award-winning Seos technology.

"Our application partners are extremely excited by the potential of Seos technology as a common standard that establishes privacy and trust in the communication of secure identity data on cards, smartphones and wearables," said Kerry Reid, Vice President of Embedded Solutions with HID Global. "As of the quarter's close, there are an additional 10 Seos-ready enterprise products and applications that can recognize and trust an HID Global secure identity using Seos technology."

The ecosystem of Seos-capable enterprise applications encompasses solutions for a broad and growing range of use cases, including PC login and authentication to IT systems and cloud applications, secure print job collection, cashless payments for point of sale and automated vending, building access, opening door locks, elevator access, parking access, and time and attendance management.

Partners joining the Seos ecosystem in the third quarter of 2014 include:

• Jetmobile, which has combined its SecureJet solution for VDI, BYOD and serverless secure printing, strong authentication and active cost reduction with HID Global's family of PKI smartcards and dual-frequency, multi-technology access control readers, powered by Seos.
• Ricoh (News - Alert) China, which provides its customers with a wide variety of solutions for secure print authentication.

SecureJet Enterprise from Jetmobile fully leverages HID Global's PKI smart cards and proximity card capabilities: "Our multivendor Seos-capable SecureJet Enterprise solution allows large enterprise companies to ensure printed and scanned documents don't fall into the wrong hands, and it actively reduces costs, whether documents come from a PC, an MFP, a mobile device or a server. It provides strong authentication, PKI encrypted printing and emails, secure BYOD mobile printing and rules-based printing to printers and MFPs of all brands," said Jean-Francois d'Estalenx, CEO of Jetmobile. "The high security Seos technology is a key part of our vertical industry secure printing connectors for Banks and Insurance, Oil & Gas, Public Sector, Healthcare and SAP (News - Alert) printing, all available from Jetmobile across the world."

"Ricoh China has been an HID Global partner for many years, for secure print authentication solutions that support color and black-and-white MFPs in our MP and MPC series printer line," said Michael Ke, Manager, Technology Center, Sales Strategy Department with Ricoh China Co., Ltd. "We have worked together closely to help our customers take control of document production with a cost-effective, hardware-free system that enables them to simultaneously control copier and printer access, manage account codes, track use, increase user mobility and minimize waste. By making our solutions Seos-capable, our customers can now also benefit from the interoperability and enhanced security of this important new open standard fo credential technology."

Seos technology has been adopted across HID Global as its standard to establish trusted and private communications for secure identities. Seos technology is chip-independent, enabling it to be easily ported across different hardware devices of different manufacturing origin. An HID Global secure identity including a Secure Identity Object® (SIO®) can be loaded onto a Seos-ready card at the time of manufacturing or provisioned to a Seos-ready phone via HID Mobile Access. HID Global's secure identities provide an additional layer of trust over and above the protection offered by the underlying card or phone.

About Seos

Seos enables any smart device to become a trusted credential, replacing mechanical keys and access cards using wireless technology, such as NFC or Bluetooth, to open doors in homes, hotels, offices, hospitals, universities, and industrial and commercial buildings. Seos technology is also used for issuing, delivering and revoking digital keys that are delivered with end-to-end encryption. Additionally, Seos powers HID Mobile Access and the company's iCLASS SE® platform, consisting of readers, credentials and encoding tools. iCLASS SE simplifies how identities are created, used and managed across a broad range of applications, using interoperable microprocessor-based credentials including cards, smart phones and other mobile devices.

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About HID Global

HID Global is the trusted source for innovative products, services, solutions, and know-how related to the creation, management, and use of secure identities for millions of customers around the world. The company's served markets include physical and logical access control, including strong authentication and credential management; card printing and personalization; visitor management systems; highly secure government and citizen ID; and identification RFID technologies used in animal ID and industry and logistics applications. The company's primary brands include ActivID^®, EasyLobby^®, FARGO^®, IdenTrust^®, LaserCard^®, Lumidigm^®, and HID^®. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 2,200 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global^® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. For more information, visit http://www.hidglobal.com.

About Jetmobile

Since 1994, Jetmobile, an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, invents, develops and delivers worldwide its SecureJet Enterprise software and solution that enable mid-size and large enterprise companies to secure printers and copiers usage for printing, emailing and scanning while drastically reducing their operating cost. SecureJet addresses documents forgotten on printers/copiers or collected by an unauthorized party, equipment usage abuse, IT security and printing in mobile and virtualized infrastructures. SecureJet Enterprise is proposed in 5 versions.

About Ricoh China

Ricoh is a global technology company specializing in office imaging equipment, production print solutions, document management systems and IT services. Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in about 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ending March 2014, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,236 billion yen (approx. 21.7 billion USD). The majority of the company's revenue comes from products, solutions and services that improve the interaction between people and information. Ricoh also produces award-winning digital cameras and specialized industrial products. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability initiatives. Under its corporate tagline, imagine. change. Ricoh helps companies transform the way they work and harness the collective imagination of their employees. For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com/about/.

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