HID Seos Essential Card

HID Global’s Seos Essential card is a simple single application card designed to be an economical solution for everyday implementations of secure physical access control.

Seos Essential cards provide trusted management of secure identities within the SIO enabled HID Signo and iCLASS SE reader platforms. This powerful credential technology is built to deliver superior data integrity and privacy protection by leveraging the latest cryptographic algorithms and security techniques. Additionally, a secure messaging protocol is also used to protect data transmission between card and reader.

Main Features

• Highly secure – Seos is Secure Identity Object® (SIO)-enabled, allowing for multilayered security beyond the card technology and protecting identity data from unauthorized access.
• Single-application – A cost effective and simplified approach designed for traditional access control solutions where more complex multi-application implementations are not needed.
• Convenient – Fully supported by HID Signo, iCLASS SE and multiCLASS SE reader platforms.
• Heightened privacy protection – Seos offers best-in-class data and privacy protection by incorporating mutual authentication and secure messaging mechanisms into stringent best practices for data protection.
• Programmed with a single SIO-based physical access control application for simplicity.
• AES-128 cryptographic algorithms for data protection during communication with the reader to defend against attacks attempting to intercept data.
• Prioritization of user privacy, always defaults to using a random contactless unique identifier (4 bytes random value).
• Ultra-fast read speeds with a high performance hardware chip integrating co-processor for cryptographic calculations with symmetric keys.
• Supports ISO/IEC standards: 7810, 7816 and contactless cards (14443 A).
• Data within the SIO is secured with a wrapper that provides key diversification, authentication signatures, and AES-128 based encryption.
• Mutual authentication protocol with generation of diversified session key to protect each card session with secure messaging.
• High resistance to common attacks (man in the middle, replay attacks and others).
• Fully supported by HID Signo readers
• Fully supported by iCLASS SE® and multiCLASS SE® readers that can process SIO-enabled data formats.
• Only supported by iCLASS SE readers with firmware Revision E or later.