Authentication has never been more important—or more confusing.
Organizations are under pressure to eliminate passwords, comply with cyber insurance requirements, protect privileged accounts, secure frontline workers, and defend against increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks. At the same time, the authentication market has exploded with new hardware, software, and identity platforms.
The challenge isn't finding products.
The challenge is knowing which products work together.
That's where MTRIX is different.
Unlike traditional resellers that focus on a single manufacturer, MTRIX has spent nearly two decades building a portfolio of best-of-breed authentication technologies. We evaluate every solution based on security, interoperability, ease of deployment, and real-world customer success—not simply brand recognition.
Whether your organization is beginning its MFA journey or implementing a complete passwordless strategy, we help design an authentication architecture built around your business requirements.
One Portfolio. Complete Authentication.
Our portfolio covers every layer of modern authentication.
Identity & Authentication Platforms
Authentication software provides the policy engine behind your identity strategy. These platforms manage authentication methods, user enrollment, risk-based policies, and passwordless authentication across your organization.
Our software portfolio includes:
- HID's DigitalPersona
- open text's Advanced Authentication
- IDmelon (an HID product)
- AuthLite
- Imprivata
Together these solutions support Microsoft environments including Active Directory and Entra ID, VPNs, VDI, healthcare workstations, manufacturing environments, and hybrid infrastructures.
Hardware Security Keys
Phishing-resistant authentication has become the gold standard.
Security keys provide strong cryptographic authentication that cannot be stolen through phishing websites or credential harvesting attacks.
MTRIX offers leading FIDO2 security keys including:
- YubiKey
- Swissbit iShield Key family
- Feitian Security Keys
- HID Crescendo Cards and Keys
Whether your organization needs USB-A, USB-C, NFC, smart card, or combined physical access credentials, we help select the right device for every user. MTRIX has long-standing partnerships with leading vendors including Yubico, HID, and Swissbit.
Smart Cards & Physical Credentials
Physical access and logical access are rapidly converging.
Instead of carrying separate badges and authentication tokens, organizations are increasingly deploying a single credential that securely opens doors and logs users into computers.
MTRIX supports technologies including:
- HID Crescendo (Keys & Cards)
- HID Seos credentials
- MIFARE DesFIRE
- Smart Cards
- PIV
- CAC
- NFC credentials
This convergence simplifies user experiences while strengthening overall security.
Readers & Desktop Authentication
Authentication isn't just about credentials.
It's also about how users interact with their devices.
Our reader portfolio includes:
- HID OMNIKEY
- HID DigitalPersona fingerprint readers
- rf IDEAS WAVE ID readers
- And other smart card or biometric readers
These products allow organizations to leverage existing employee badges for workstation login, secure printing, time and attendance, and shared workstation authentication.
Passwordless for Frontline Workers
Traditional password management simply doesn't work for frontline employees.
Manufacturing workers, healthcare staff, warehouse personnel, retail associates, and shared workstation users need authentication that is fast, secure, and easy to use.
Solutions like IDmelon enable organizations to transform existing employee ID badges, smartphones, or biometrics into FIDO2 security keys, dramatically reducing password-related support calls while improving security.
Why Customers Choose MTRIX
The biggest advantage isn't our product catalog.
It's knowing which solution is right for your environment.
Our consultants help customers:
- Compare competing authentication platforms
- Design phishing-resistant MFA strategies
- Select the appropriate security keys
- Integrate physical and logical access
- Deploy passwordless authentication
- Support global rollouts
- Provide logistics and fulfillment services
- Deliver ongoing managed authentication services
Because we aren't tied to a single vendor, our recommendations are driven by customer requirements—not quotas.
Authentication Is an Ecosystem
Successful authentication projects combine software, hardware, credentials, readers, deployment expertise, and long-term support.
That's why MTRIX focuses exclusively on authentication.
Our carefully selected portfolio allows us to build solutions that fit your environment today while preparing your organization for tomorrow's passwordless future.
Whether you're deploying phishing-resistant MFA, modernizing legacy authentication, or converging physical and logical access, MTRIX provides the technology, expertise, and services to make authentication simpler.
What's Next in the Authentication Buyer's Guide Series?
Choosing the right authentication solution is about more than comparing product specifications—it's about understanding how each technology fits into your organization's security strategy, user experience, and long-term goals.
This Buyer's Guide is the first installment in a new educational series from MTRIX. Over the coming weeks, we'll take a deeper dive into each product and technology in our authentication portfolio, exploring where it excels, the problems it solves, deployment considerations, and the environments it's best suited for.
Whether you're evaluating your first MFA solution or designing a comprehensive passwordless strategy, our goal is to provide practical, vendor-neutral guidance that helps you make informed decisions with confidence.
Follow this MTRIX blog to be notified as each new guide is published and discover how the right combination of authentication technologies can strengthen security, simplify user access, and prepare your organization for the future of identity.