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SSG Skillnation and Sistec collaborate on identity control

5 February 2026

SSG and Sistec are initiating a collaboration to create new opportunities for industrial plants that need to strengthen the identity control of contractors and other external personnel. Through an integration between Sistec’s Right to Work platform and SSG’s competence platform SSG Skillnation, the Verified Identity certificate is now being introduced, which can then be checked by the site via SSG Skillnation, but also soon via SSG Workflow.

The need to reliably verify the identity of external personnel has increased significantly in recent years, and identity assurance has become an increasingly important part of the security work of companies and organisations.

In addition, the Resilience Act (CER) will enter into force in 2026. It sets requirements that businesses that provide services of vital importance to society must be able to ensure a strong identity for all individuals with access to functions, systems or environments that can affect the resilience of the business. The requirements apply not only to employees - but also to consultants, contractors and suppliers.

Verified Identity now available in SSG Skillnation

As one of the responses to these increased requirements, Verified Identity is now being introduced, a certificate issued after Sistec has verified the individual’s identity, including through an authenticity analysis of the person’s passport or national ID card. This corresponds to the highest level, Confidence Level 4 (DIGG) and also known as LoA4 (NIST and ISO/IEC 29115:2013)

Here’s how it works in practice:

  1. The site requires that the “Verified Identity” certificate must be available for inspection in SSG Skillnation.
  2. Required contractors working on the site must undergo identity checks at Sistec’s 20 service centres.
  3. When the check is completed successfully, the Verified Identity certificate is issued.
  4. The certificate is published automatically on the individual’s page in SSG Skillnation.
  5. The administrator at the company where the individual works goes into SSG Skillnation and selects “Show” the employee’s certificate to sites that search the company.

The site then selects to check the certificate either via SSG Skillnation, via integration or, for example, through work permits issued via SSG Workflow.

Checking identity documents such as passports and driver’s licences is something that sites currently do both at gatekeepers and in other locations, but this can be both time-consuming (leading to queues) and technically difficult in terms of the risk of forged ID documents. This new option provides industrial companies with a standardised and safe method to verify the identity of all personnel - before they gain access.

Magnus Björk

Magnus Björk, Product Manager at SSG, comments:

"SSG Skillnation is the industry’s common platform for gathering and making available information about individuals’ competences and permissions. By integrating Verified Identity, we are adding a new, basic dimension to the platform - the ability to verify in a standardised way that the competence is actually connected to the right person."

Gustaf Broman

Gustaf Broman, CEO of Sistec, comments:

"Swedish industry is facing increasingly high safety and reliability requirements. Through our collaboration with SSG, we make it possible to ensure in a simple and uniform way that everyone who is given access to a workplace really is who they claim to be. Verified Identity not only increases security - it also increases trust throughout the supply chain."