What are smart cards?
Smart cards are multifunctional access and authentication cards that enable users to log in to computers without a password, sign documents digitally, and access local and cloud resources while streamlining operations and enhancing user experience.
Unlike traditional passwords, smart cards provide critical safeguards such as
- Key protection: Data and private keys cannot be extracted from the secure chip
- Secured crypto: All encryption operations are performed within the card, preventing external observation or tampering
- Brute-force resistance: Multiple incorrect PIN attempts lock the card, requiring a PUK or admin key for reactivation
Customize your smart cards
If you order cards as a service from Nexus GO, you get customized and personalized PKI cards, encoded and ready to use, with the right security level for your organization. Then, Nexus provides and maintains the PKI infrastructure.
Combine the following components to suit your organizations special requirements:
Visual identity: Get your cards customized with a company logo and color scheme and personalized with a photo and personal data.
PKI chip: Use certificates for two-factor authentication, passwordless login to Windows, digital signing and encryption.
RFID technology: Choose one or combine two of the most common RFID (Radio-frequency identification) technologies on high-quality cards with the original RFID chip.
Visual security elements: Add security elements to ensure that your photo ID cards are hard to forge.
Use cases
- Visual identification
- Access to buildings
- Follow-me printing
- Windows login
- Secure access to digital resources
- Two-factor authentication
- Signing documents and emails
- Email encryption
Secure channel solution for end-to-end security
Part of Workforce ID, our secure channel solution for smart cards with built-in NXP JCOP 4.5 chips, offers a powerful, future-ready solution while meeting stringent global and regional regulations.
A secure channel establishes fully encrypted communication between the card and the server. It ensures that even if the client device is compromised, attackers cannot intercept, manipulate, or replay data, guaranteeing that every interaction with the smart card remains confidential and tamper-proof.
Trusted by government organizations across Europe, it meets exceptionally high security demands by offering,
- End-to-end encryption: Protects data from the server all the way to the smart card
- Tamper-proof communication: Prevents unauthorized interception or modification of commands and data
- Malware resistance: Even compromised devices cannot access or alter card data
Why Nexus
The main advantages of smart cards from Nexus are:
High security
Provides high quality RFID products from certified suppliers, only using original RFID chip cards and no copies.
Ready to use
Order your key fobs ready to use with Nexus GO Cards.
Smooth management
Simplify the order process and get all the access control products and accessories that you need, in one place, within the same order.