MIFARE 2GO for Enterprise and Education: The Secure, Cloud-Based Approach to Managing Access to Facilities

NXP’s tap-and-go MIFARE^® product, which began more than 25 years ago as a single IC for transport ticketing in South Korea, is now a leading choice worldwide in more than 40 application classes, ranging from smart mobility and micropayments to loyalty, identification, and, increasingly, access management.

At just about any given moment on any given day, there’s someone, somewhere, using a MIFARE product based solution for access management – on a smartcard, a smartphone, a wristband, or some other wearable – by securely unlocking a door, logging onto a computer, or using an online service.

A Secure, Flexible Solution

MIFARE^® DESFire^®, with its high-level security and support for multi-application functionality, is recommended for all types of access management, especially in enterprise and educational contexts, where large numbers of people need to access a wide variety of buildings and services.

MIFARE DESFire offers high security and provides protection mechanisms to prevent cloning or sharing of credentials, uses cryptography to secure authentication, encrypt communication, and prevent sniffing, relay attacks, and other forms of manipulation.

Also, because MIFARE DESFire supports multi-application and multi-site solutions, employees, faculty members, and students can do more than open doors, using their MIFARE DESFire credentials to confirm their identity, make purchase, or ride public transport. What’s more, since MIFARE DESFire is fully compatible with NFC, as defined by the ISO 14443-A specification, MIFARE DESFire credentials translate seamlessly from physical smartcards to NFC-enabled mobile devices like smartphones and wearables.

Cloud-Based Management Mobile Credentials

NXP’s cloud service for issuing and managing MIFARE credentials, called MIFARE 2GO, makes it easy for enterprises and educational facilities to enable secure mobile access. Backed by 24/7 support, MIFARE 2GO is designed as a highly flexible and cloud service that uses one seamless transaction and security protocol to support physical and virtual credentials, all within a cost-effective and scalable service infrastructure that includes risk management, reporting, and analytics.

MIFARE 2GO provides complete control over the entire lifecycle of access management, providing a single point of interaction for managing, creating, and revoking credentials. Built as an end-to-end cloud solution, MIFARE 2GO connects service providers with OEM wallet providers, and manages card content on behalf of service provider. It’s a one-stop approach to enabling MIFARE DESFire on different devices (smartcards, smartphones, wearables), quick deployment, and the ability to scale quickly, even to very large numbers of users.

NXP’s First MIFARE 2GO Partner for Corporate Access: WaveLynx

WaveLynx Technologies Corporation   supplies an open and secure access-control platform, complete with readers and credentials, to nearly 50 access-control providers globally, and is the first to offer MIFARE 2GO mobile credentials in the commercial access-control environment.

Working out of Colorado, in the United States, WaveLynx offers decades-worth of experience in RFID-based access, in enterprise and educational environments. They already use MIFARE DESFire to deploy credentials and readers at five of the top ten financial institutions in the world, and at many of the world’s leading technology companies.

Now, through the WaveLynx and MIFARE 2GO combination, employees can use Google and Samsung Wallets to securely access all of their facilities in a frictionless manner. Administrators get the cybersecurity and administrative tools they need to manage the lifecycle of the credential, while employees get the benefits of convenience, privacy, and security.

WaveLynx is a longtime customer of our MIFARE products. As Robert Lydic, WaveLynx president, explains it, “Back in 2014, we made the foundational decision to base all our reader and credential technology on the MIFARE DESFire ecosystem. It offers superior cryptography and security for a market that demands the highest levels of protection, and it lets us grant interoperability within an open development platform. Standardizing on MIFARE DESFire also lets us establish our own platform for industry adoption.

The WaveLynx/MIFARE 2GO combination will create safer, more convenient corporate environments, with mobile employee IDs and badges that can be used with a variety of services, including access to offices, secure areas, parking garages, and elevators, as well as cost-related activities such as printer access or making purchases at onsite cafeterias. All access and commerce transactions can be combined in one solution, with one ID serving for everything employees need to do.

To immerse yourself in the NXP vision for MIFARE 2GO, visit nxp.com/MIFARE 2GO.