CertiPath and SLC Digital Partner to Deliver High-Assurance Identity and Hardware-Rooted Mobile Authentication

RESTON, Va. and NEW YORK, Sept. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CertiPath, Inc. and SLC Digital today announced a strategic partnership to bring to market a powerful combination of their complementary offerings. The collaboration combines CertiPath’s TrustSuite identity platform with SLC Digital’s SIM/eSIM-based authentication technology, extending a verified identity into a trusted mobile credential anchored directly in secure hardware. Together, the companies enable organizations to establish confidence in a person’s identity and cryptographically verify that a trusted device is present and participating during subsequent authentication and remote access sessions.

CertiPath’s TrustSuite takes individuals on the full journey from interviewing through active employment, managing secured identity across onboarding, badging, and access provisioning to both physical facilities and IT systems. TrustSuite will also support the secure transfer of identity from a personal device to a corporate mobile device. SLC Digital provides a hardware-rooted, SIM/eSIM-based mobile authenticator that delivers cryptographic proof of credential possession and ongoing presence assurance without requiring additional hardware or complex user experiences. When TrustSuite first interacts with a user, SLC Digital’s solution cryptographically binds the verified identity to a trusted SIM/eSIM-based credential, extending that trust into CertiPath’s platform for enterprise-wide authentication and access decisions.

The combined solution addresses a critical Gap in modern identity and access management: the ability to bind high-assurance identity not only to credentials and policies, but also to hardware-rooted device and network presence—especially important for remote work, contractor access, and zero-trust environments. CertiPath supplies the enterprise-grade platform that meaningfully operationalizes high-assurance identity throughout the organization, while SLC Digital supplies the low-friction, globally available mobile root of trust that extends the trusted identity into ongoing authentication and presence assurance at scale.

“This partnership brings together two complementary strengths,” said Jeff Nigriny, Founder and CEO of CertiPath. “CertiPath has spent two decades building the TrustSuite platform and the Trust Fabric that allow organizations to use high-assurance credentials for both physical and logical access. SLC Digital’s mobile authenticator gives us a ubiquitous, hardware-rooted, low-friction way to bind a verified identity to a trusted mobile credential at the conclusion of the onboarding process with a new person. It critically allows us to maintain confidence in who—and where—the user is thereafter. The result is a complete, future-proof solution for the modern enterprise.”

“SLC Digital was founded to make hardware-rooted identity available on the device nearly every person already carries,” said Travis M. McGregor, CEO and Co-Founder of SLC Digital. “By pairing our SIM-based authenticator and presence capabilities with CertiPath’s TrustSuite, organizations can finally close the loop between strong initial proofing, ongoing authentication, and presence assurance. We’re excited to bring this integrated offering to market together.”

As credential and authentication technologies continue to evolve, the combined platform ensures that applications and systems remain future-proof: new methods need only be supported once at the identity layer, while enterprises continue to receive signed, high-assurance assertions they can trust for access decisions. The partnership leverages CertiPath’s 20 years of experience as an operator of a bridge certification authority cross-certified with the Federal Bridge and SLC Digital’s SIM/eSIM hardware root of trust available across 180+ countries.

About CertiPath
CertiPath, Inc. develops and promotes ground-breaking technologies and services that enable the use of high-assurance credentials. Validating the identity of those who reside in facilities and on networks is a cornerstone of physical and cyber security. At the heart of its success, CertiPath applies its unparalleled experience to create a suite of innovative, scalable products and services that hold identities accessing organizations’ networks to the highest level of validation. Through the use of these tools, CertiPath protects the investment its customers have made in implementing high-assurance credentials as a method of authentication to their critical assets. The company’s trusted suite of products uses Trust Fabric (the secure interconnection of trusted participants CertiPath spent a decade helping to create), ensuring that assets are accessed only by valid and vetted users with high-assurance credentials. For more information, visit www.certipath.com.

About SLC Digital
SLC Digital is an identity authentication company that uses the mobile device as a hardware-rooted trust layer to protect accounts and high-risk digital transactions. It cryptographically authenticates users through the SIM/eSIM and mobile network, providing real-time proof of possession and presence without relying on SMS one-time passcodes (OTPs) or other authentication codes. This enables organizations to strengthen authentication and help prevent account takeover, impersonation, and other forms of digital fraud. SLC Digital works with global partners including IDEMIA, Ideco Biometrics, Tracer Labs, and Monogoto to deliver secure, network-native digital trust at scale. The company is also a member of the GSMA and the Nvidia Inception program. For more information, visit www.slc.digital.

Contacts:
Allison Clair
Keeton PR
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Justin Garrison
CertiPath
Justin.garrison@certipath.com