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The post-quantum credential platform

MyID® manages the entire credential lifecycle - from FIDO2 passkeys to PKI smart cards - and it's built for what comes next. As quantum computing threatens today's public-key cryptography, MyID's crypto-agile architecture and support for post-quantum algorithms let organisations issue and manage quantum-safe credentials, and carrying trusted identity into the post-quantum era.

Our Story

From a single PKI engineer's vision to one of the world's most trusted identity platforms.

Intercede is a cybersecurity software company specialising in digital identities, its innovative solutions enable organisations to protect themselves against the number one cause of data breach: compromised user credentials. For over 25 years, global customers in government, aerospace and defence, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, cloud services and information technology have trusted Intercede solutions' expertise to protect their mission critical data and systems at the highest level of assurance.

The Intercede MyID platform lets customers choose the level of assurance that best fits their needs, from secure registration and ID verification through to phishing-resistant authentication with FIDO passkeys and PKI. Uniquely, MyID manages this full range of high-assurance credentials in a single platform, supporting customers on their journey to phishing-resistant, quantum-ready authentication at the highest levels of assurance.

2006

World first CMS on the FIPS 201 Approved Product List

2007

World first Federal Government CMS PIV deployment

2008

Our first 1M+ credential deployment in the US TSA TWIC Program

2010

Opened dedicated US office

2012

Our first mobile derived credential deployment

2016

Launches first YubiKey integration

2017

Implements first national ID system (Kuwait)

2021

Intercede retires CLN and is debt free

2022

Intercede makes first acquisition adding MFA, PSM and the world's largest breach database

2024

Intercede launches MyID SecureVault

2025

First CMS to feature FIDO Enterprise Attestation

2026

First end-to-end FIDO PQC with Swissbit

Leadership

Our senior leadership team

Our senior leadership team is focused on continuing to develop the innovative, forward-thinking culture at Intercede to deliver value for our customers, investors and to make a positive contribution to the communities where we operate.

Klaas van der Leest

Klaas van der Leest

Chief Executive Officer

Klaas van der Leest is an experienced executive with extensive sales, marketing, business development and general management experience in IT and IT services. He has significant international knowledge and experience as a result of various roles with remits across EMEA, Asia-Pac and North America. Klaas has worked for a number of large and small, quoted and privately-owned organisations in market leading and turnaround situations including CA Technologies, Intelecom UK, Amulet Hotkey, Global Crossing, Attenda and Logica. He has proven expertise in the development and execution of national and international sales growth, ‘go to market’ initiatives and customer focused expansion strategies. Klaas has a master’s degree from the Cranfield School of Management. He also is a Chartered Marketer as well as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He was appointed Chief Executive of Intercede on 10 April 2018.

Nitil Patel

Nitil Patel

Chief Financial Officer

Nitil has been a CFO and a plc board member since 2001. Recently he was the interim CFO at D4t4 Solutions plc (2021), which helps global enterprises derive value via Celebrus, the company’s flagship first party product suite. From 2016 to 2020, he was the CFO at Dods Group plc (now renamed Merit Group plc), a leading technology company specialising in data, business intelligence and media delivering content to more than fifty countries across six continents. Before Merit, Nitil was CFO of multi-media content creator Ten Alps plc (rebranded Zinc Media plc) from 2001 to 2016. During this time, Nitil managed three divisions of the group, driving growth both organically and through strategic acquisitions. He was a key member of the team from the very start of Ten Alps in 1999 as Finance Director and was responsible for its listing on AiM in 2001. Nitil is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Mike Weston

Mike Weston

Chief Operations Officer

Mike has extensive executive operational experience within software engineering and system integration environments, together with strong general management and motivational skills with multicultural and multidisciplinary teams. He has significant international operational experience in turnaround and growth during both acquisition and mergers having performed COO and subsidiary CEO roles in UK, Asia, India and North America. Mike is responsible for Intercede’s operations including product development, project delivery, associated consultancy services and customer support. Mike is also the management representative for Intercede’s quality initiatives. He has introduced stronger discipline and focus to organisational delivery and review, thereby ensuring greater efficiency and built-in robustness into the estimation and development processes.

Dan McLoughlin

Dan McLoughlin

Chief Product Officer

Based in the UK covering a global customer base, Dan is Chief Product Officer at Intercede and has worked extensively with Small, Medium and Large Enterprises and also many of the world’s largest banks. Dan has a strong background with remote access, authentication and security he has spoken extensively on the subject of authentication, customer and banking security at events internationally. Dan is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and has worked in Security for over 26 years.

James Westgate

James Westgate

Chief Technology Officer

James Westgate is Chief Technology Officer at Intercede, where he leads the technical vision for the MyID family of Identity and Access Management (IAM) products. With over 30 years of software development experience, including more than a decade specializing in IAM, James is a recognized expert in secure identity technologies. An accomplished ethical hacker, James deepened his interest in password security during the COVID-19 lockdowns. He developed novel techniques for cracking complex password hashes such as bcrypt, leveraging insights from leaked password datasets. James leads efforts at Intercede in how to build and test software more efficiently with AI and how we automate vulnerability and pen testing the MyID product family

Mission

Our mission is to deliver Enterprise Credential Management software that protects governments and enterprises from the number one cause of data breach: compromised user credentials. We do this by:

  • Building secure, scalable software that solves real-world authentication challenges
  • Cultivating partnerships that amplify innovation and extend our reach
  • Investing in talent and engineering capability to sustain product excellence
  • Delivering long-term value for our shareholders, customers and colleagues.
Vision

An integrated product family managing the digital identities of people, machines and agentic AI. A single pane of glass for every credential used within the enterprise, regardless of whether it is human or non-human, supporting customers on their journey towards Zero Trust architectures and the highest levels of assurance.

Certifications & standards

Compliance and certification

We hold the certifications our customers expect, and we engineer to standards far beyond them.

ISO 27001

Information security management

ISO 9001

Quality management system

Cyber Essentials+

UK NCSC certification

CMMC

Aligned to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information across the US Defense Industrial Base.

GDPR

Data protection compliance

AIM Listed

London Stock Exchange (IGP)

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