Orlando, FL December 18, 2008 -- Best-in-class fingerprint authentication hardware manufacturer and network security solution provider Zvetco Biometrics today announced the Verifi M5000 USB Fingerprint Reader. The Verifi M5000 is a sleek and powerful new design, expanding the capabilities of Zvetco's award-winning Verifi fingerprint readers. The M5000 is a heavy duty fingerprint readers, designed to be depoloyed in harsh environments. Like the P5000 on which it is based, the M5000 can handle the largest one-to-many (1:N) identification schemes, in government, enterprise or Web transactions. It features a high-resolution UPEK large area silicon sensor that captures larger and more detailed fingerprint images, making them suitable for large scale searches.

"Zvetco's M5000 provides a perfect biometric tool for military, police and and government agencies where identifying unique individuals from within extremely large databases is the requirement, often in harsh environments." said Zavi Cohen, CEO of Zvetco Biometrics. "Zvetco's new Verifi M5000 fingerprint reader features a unique case design which is not only waterproof but can be mounted in kiosk, Nema enclosures , police cars and on door jams. It uses significantly larger sensor that captures more minutia points from the fingerprint image, ensuring the highest accuracy match for every user. This technology introduces a cost-effective solution for one-to-many authentication and complements FIPS-201 deployments with quick and accurate identification of an individual fingerprint from within even the largest government or enterprise database."

Zvetco's Verifi M5000 is also an ideal companion solution to Zvetco's P5000, the ideal solution for protecting desktops and helping network security everywhere. The P5000 is designed to facilitate government logical access -- the protection of personal computers and electronic data to help prevent the inside threat.