Passwords are fading fast—and for good reason. Cyberattacks are evolving, regulations are tightening, and users expect frictionless access to digital services. In this new reality, secure access must be adaptable, compliant, and designed around both security and usability.
Smart ID by Nexus delivers on this promise. It enables strong PKI-based authentication across hybrid environments, supports modern standards like FIDO2, and offers deployment flexibility to match your infrastructure and regulatory needs.
“We’ve designed Smart ID to meet real-world identity needs by supporting modern standards, adapting to different IT environments, and making secure authentication seamless for users and IT teams alike,” says Olivier Dussutour, CEO and Head of the Workforce Identity at Nexus.
New regulations, evolving threat models, and distributed IT environments are pushing organizations to rethink how they manage and protect digital identities.
Key trends include:
These drivers impact sectors of all kinds—public agencies providing citizen portals, banks enabling secure employee and partner access, and logistics providers managing distributed workforce identities.
Smart ID supports a wide range of secure login methods, including multi-factor authentication (MFA) with options such as two-factor authentication (2FA), biometrics, PKI-based credentials, and FIDO2-based passwordless login. This allows organizations to tailor access controls based on risk levels, user groups, or business requirements, while keeping the experience intuitive.
“FIDO2 stands out as a key innovation. It enables phishing-resistant authentication using cryptographic credentials stored on a device, eliminating the need for passwords or shared secrets,” explains Mille Bessö, product manager at Nexus. “Smart ID makes it easy for organizations to issue, manage, and authenticate with FIDO2 credentials, helping to future-proof their access strategies.”
Built on open standards like SAML and OpenID Connect, Smart ID integrates smoothly with platforms like Microsoft Entra ID, enabling seamless federation and centralized identity management.
Smart ID also provides granular access policies and complete audit logging to help organizations meet the requirements of frameworks like NIS2, eIDAS, and GDPR, without adding unnecessary complexity for users or administrators.
Smart ID gives organizations control over how they deploy and scale:
“By supporting adaptive authentication and policy-based access, Smart ID strengthens the organization’s zero-trust strategies. It ensures that users only access the resources they’re authorized to based on who they are, what device they’re using, and where they’re connecting from,” Mille adds.
Explore solution: Secure, smooth, and scalable authentication with Smart ID
Security teams need to deliver strong protection, simplified access, and audit-ready compliance, often across fragmented systems. Smart ID helps meet these demands by enabling organizations to:
Whether you're a municipality digitizing services, a healthcare provider securing staff’s access to patient records, or an enterprise modernizing secure access to internal applications, Smart ID adapts to your environment while strengthening identity assurance.
Discover how Smart ID can help you deliver secure, seamless access for your users, at scale and in complete alignment with compliance expectations.
Published
30/04 2025
Nexus Smart ID provides secure, compliant access for people and devices across your organization using smart cards, mobile IDs, or passwordless login.
It enables strong MFA, supports regulations like NIS2 and eIDAS, and simplifies identity management from a single, unified platform.
The solution also extends to physical access control and IoT security, helping you manage all identities across your digital and physical environments from a single platform.