The corporate identity badge has not fundamentally changed in decades, even as the risks it is meant to manage have grown far more complex. Organizations today face a workforce that is more distributed, more reliant on contractors and vendors, and more exposed to insider threats than ever before. At the same time, the badge itself typically offers little more than a photo and a proximity chip — a single factor of authentication that can be lost, shared, cloned, or stolen without immediate detection.
DigMe reimagines the ID badge as a biometric, digitally credentialed device that delivers genuine two-factor authentication (MFA) without requiring organizations to rip out and replace existing physical access infrastructure. This paper describes the DigMe ID Badge (with beaconing or without), the insider-threat landscape that motivates the product, and a new safety dimension: device-based beaconing that extends DigMe beyond access control into real-time occupant safety, duress signaling, and emergency accountability. Read the white paper