How HID Global is Using Clearly AI to Automate Threat Modeling and Get Ahead of the EU Cyber Resilience Act

Securing the Company that Helps You Stay Secure

HID Global builds the systems that help organizations securely identify people, places, and things. From physical access readers to biometric authentication, their products are used around the world to protect what matters most.

Behind the scenes, HID’s security and privacy team supports hundreds of these products, ensuring every one meets compliance, privacy, and risk standards before it reaches customers.

That’s a heavy lift when documentation takes weeks and the product pipeline keeps growing.

Engineers were often expected to write extensive documentation, including threat models, to support reviews. That slowed down releases and drained time from development teams.

Staring Down the Security Bottleneck

The security and privacy team supported hundreds of products at once, and every review started with a blank page. Threat models. Risk assessments. Compliance write-ups. It all took time, and much of that time came straight from developers who were pulled in to help.

“Our developers should be out there developing new features, making money for the company. Not overthinking threat models or writing documents that take weeks.”‍

It was necessary work, but it was taking teams away from what they were actually there to do. And as HID shipped more products, the workload only got heavier. Without additional headcount to scale, HID was looking for a tool that could act as a force multiplier and reliably automate the manual work.

Shipping Faster, Securely with Clearly AI

Beyond document generation, HID needed a tool that could understand their products from a security perspective and act like an extension of the team. They were looking for a partner that could think the way their security architects think, automate a first draft of complex assessments, and give their team the feeling of suddenly having far more hands available.

Clearly AI became exactly that partner. The platform fits into HID’s existing workflows, draws from the team’s own knowledge bases, and shapes its outputs around the organization’s policies and controls. It is configurable to the way HID works and has guardrails that make the results reliable, consistent, and trusted.

When HID brought in Clearly AI, the shift was immediate. Instead of writing documentation from scratch, teams now feed product inputs into the platform and get a full set of security, privacy, and compliance documentation in minutes. Developers then review what is generated, refine where needed, and move forward far faster than before.

For HID, Clearly AI feels like an extra set of hands for every developer, taking on the hours of work that once slowed releases down.

Now, instead of our developers writing documentation for the sake of documentation, they’re reviewing and saying, yep, that’s the correct answer.”

The result is faster reviews, fewer delays, and engineers who can stay focused on building the products customers rely on.

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Preparing for the Cyber Resilience Act

The upcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act will apply to nearly every product HID makes, and preparing for it is a massive undertaking. More than 300 products fall under the regulation, each requiring detailed security and compliance documentation. Doing that work manually would have taken months of engineer time and pulled teams even further away from development.

300 products times weeks of work. The tool pays for itself quickly.”

With Clearly AI, HID can move through this work at a pace that was never possible before. The platform identifies compliance gaps early, highlights what needs attention, and produces documentation in minutes instead of weeks. Clearly AI helps teams pinpoint gaps in compliance early and gives them time to address issues before they become blockers.

Teams are finding where they’re non-compliant a lot faster. It’s been a major help.”

As HID prepares for the Act, Clearly AI helps them move quickly without sacrificing the depth or rigor their security reviews require, keeping the company ahead of a demanding regulatory landscape.

Designed for How Your Team Actually Works

Clearly AI was built for teams facing what HID and others are dealing with today. The volume of reviews is growing, compliance requirements are becoming more complex, and most teams are expected to handle it without more headcount.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act is just one example. It will require detailed documentation and stronger security assurance for almost every connected product sold in Europe. And it is only the beginning. Privacy, AI governance, and security regulations are accelerating across markets.

Clearly AI helps remove the manual lift, accelerate documentation, and free developers to do the work that actually moves products forward. 

Is your team working through similar challenges? Let’s talk.