Written on 4:51 AM by AKS
UPEK, the leader in enterprise and consumer biometric fingerprint solutions, today announced availability of fingerprint authentication solutions for manufacturers of netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) to integrate into these new classes of portable, internet-connected computing devices. UPEK’s Fingerprint Authentication Solutions for netbooks and MIDs feature the latest generation T
ouchStrip® TCS5 Fingerprint Sensor optimized for compact, low-cost, low-power devices, and Fingerprint Suite™ Starter software that allows users to access password protected websites with the simple swipe of a finger.
As users of netbooks and MIDs take advantage of cloud computing applications and online storage of personal files, they are burdened by a growing number of different passwords to access their web accounts. To alleviate the pain of trying to remember these passwords, Fingerprint Suite Starter remembers and replays these numerous passwords with the simple swipe of a finger. The dedicated touch-based user interface offered by the UPEK TouchStrip Fingerprint sensor also provides a convenient user experience on these small platforms with limited or no keyboards.
”The sudden popularity of netbooks and MIDs underscores
a shift in the way people interact with their devices and access the Internet,” said Vito Fabbrizio, Senior Director of OEM Marketing at UPEK. “Building on UPEK’s experience in making fingerprint sensors ubiquitous in laptop computers, we are also pleased to help OEMs and ODMs offer their netbook and MID customers with an innovative user experience that fits their new approach to computing.”
Fingerprint Suite Starter will be available starting in March 2009 with support for Windows® XP and planned support for Windows 7 Starter edition. In addition, Fingerprint Suite support for Linux will be available in the second half of 2009.
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Written on 4:33 AM by AKS
SecuGen, a leading developer of biometric products, has announced the release of two new high-capacity OEM fingerprint sensors. The two new scanners are called SDA04M and SDA04.
SDA04M, a non-FIPS compliant commercial application scanner, is intended for commercial biometric applications. While the SDA04, a FIPS compliant scanner for government or commercial applications, is intended for government and commercial applications where FIPS 201/PIV compliance is required.
The new SDA04 and SDA04M fingerprint sensors can register and store 10,000 users and perform blazingly fast one-to-many (1:N) searches on all 10,000. These sensors support either SecuGen proprietary templates or ANSI-INCITS 378-2004 standard templates for interoperability. The ANSI-INCITS option utilizes SecuGen’s MINEX compliant algorithms that have been tested by NIST. Additionally, the SDA04’s fingerprint optic module is FBI certified for PIV compliance and meets FBI Image Quality Specs.
According to Dan Riley, VP of Engineering for SecuGen. “Our goal, as always, is to provide our partners with the best tools available anywhere for building state of the art biometrics products. We are very pleased to be able to provide business partners around the world with these two new products.”
The SDA04M and SDA04 join the recently introduced SDA03M™ in ushering in a powerful new generation of standalone OEM fingerprint sensors built on SecuGen’s renowned rugged, accurate and high image quality fingerprint technology.
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Written on 3:54 AM by AKS
Fingerprint scanning security is no longer the technology of sci-fi thrillers or the super wealthy. In fact, portable, print-based digital privacy can be had by the masses for $50, thanks to a new product from Upek.
The company behind many of the fingerprint security systems built into top-name laptops and personal computers has a new product on the market that is perfect for everyday computer users.
The Eikon To Go Digital Privacy Manager ($49.99) works with both Windows and Mac operating systems. It helps Windows users lock their computer, remember passwords, encrypt files with sensitive data, and launch applications all with the swipe of a finger. Mac users benefit from the ability to lock their computers, quickly switch between user accounts, unlock Keychain and authenticate to secure preferences.
Those who are leery about having a fingerprint on file in their computer need not worry. The device does not read and match the entire fingerprint, rather, it creates a mathematical representation of key information about the fingerprint.
Once a fingerprint – or at least unique details of it – is registered, Upek’s software will guide users through setting up passwords for websites, banks, and archives. Gone will be the days of sticky notes around the desktop with usernames and passwords scribbled. Also gone will be those simple, security-challenged passwords like first names, logins spelled backwards, phone numbers and other tricks to help password-clogged brains.
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Written on 3:14 AM by AKS
Biometric access safe allows you to store small precious items at home as well as in office. You can store your personal documents, medicines, firearms, rare collectables, fine jewelry… anything that you can fit into the cast aluminum and steel case. What make it more safer and reliable than the traditional safes is its biometric technology that allows you to open this safe based on your unique biometric print. The biometric access safes can store finger prints of more than one person so that several members of a family or staffs of a office can access the safe. Safe may be bolted to the floor, and it meets strict government standards for fingerprint identification and National Institute of Science and Technology standards.
Common Features of Biometric Access Safe:
Fingerprint Biometric Swipe Sensor
Automatically Recognizes Up to 50 Fingerprints
Perfect for Guns, Prescription Medicines, Documents, etc
No wiring required
Large enough to store 2 or more handguns
Quick Access - Can Be Mounted in a Vehicle or Closet
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Written on 1:48 AM by AKS
A biometric passport is a combination of a paper and electronic identity document that used to authenticate the citizenship of travelers. The biometric passport is valid for 5 years for first time applicants, compared to 10 years passports without biometric features. The biometric passport is planned to have digital imaging and fingerprint biometrics placed on the radio frequency identification chip. A biometric passport uses the most advanced technology to verify a person's identity, looking the same as a regular passport, with the exception of the computer chip on the photo page.
Passports and ID cards are unlikely to actually use most the thirteen biometric indicators the government proposes to collect on all citizens. Passports are to be now based on biometric testing, and the passport's critical information is stored on a tiny RFID computer chip, much like how information is stored on smartcards.
Biometric passports first appeared in Belgium around the in 2004, putting the country a pio
neer in the field. Biometric passports cannot be changed due to information only being able to be written to it once. Biometrics automates the process that verifies an individual's identity based on their physical characteristics. Biometrics included in a static chip provides a means by which the identity of visitors maybe verified, and hinders entry by imposters and the use of fraudulent documents. Further advances in biometrics technology are growing all the time.
Biometric passport is a technology advancement that will spread across the world, and countries that have not adopted it will be alienated from rest of the world. The biometric passport is believed to be as a foolproof method to stop passport cheats in their tracks. A biometric passport is takes a scanned information of your photograph and stores it in a chip which isbuilt into the passport itself. The DNA biometric passport is in development and has yet to be implemented fully, and governments that wish to implement it need to plan to ensure a smooth transition from the present system to the new system.
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Written on 3:38 AM by AKS
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.
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Written on 5:30 AM by AKS
The numerous instances of keys snatching and stealing will no more help thieves to get away with the cars. To start the cars they will have to scan the finger of authorised person at first.
Fed up of increasing risk of car theft, the auto manufacturers have come up with the unique idea of introducing biometric security access to the cars. With the increasing use of biometric technology in electronics products, it was just a matter of time to enter in auto sector.
Biometric technology products like Biometric Immobiliser, developed by Automotive Technology Research and Development (ATRD) is an attempt to minimize the risk of your car theft. After installing his device in your car, you don't need only car keys but the immobiliser ask you to scan the valid finger before activating the ignition.
For adding this feature you would require only a small dashboard mounted touchpad- that scan the finger and match it with the biometric record stored in the immobiliser's memory. Unless the two records match it won't allow the engine to fire.
To suit the purpose of family cars this technology can be programmed to register multiple fingerprints. That will allow more than one person to get access to the cars.
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Written on 4:24 AM by AKS
Now you don't need to fed complex & tough-to-remember passwords to get access to your laptop. Just press your finger and login to your account. Repetitive changing of passwords in your laptop as well as in mind will no more irk you. It has all been possible due to the biometric technology.
A large number of business laptops manufacturers are using this technology. Such laptops come with built-in fingerprint scanners, which scans your fingerprint and allow access to the authorized users only. These biometric security enabled laptops are quite convenient to handle. Employees need only swipe their fingers across the sensor to login. It is of great help to the business managers because even if the laptop is lost or get in wrong hands, they will not be able to login to your account and get access to your data.
Advantages of Biometric Security
The most prominent benefit of using biometric security system is that employees will entirely get rid of password system. It is quite a tough task for organizations to change passwords frequently. Employees forget their password and log themselves out of the system. To log back in they need IT help-desk leading to time consuming calls. To get out of this problem they often write password on a piece of paper and put it under keyboard or notebook thus increasing the risk of getting in wrong hands.
The use of biometric security enabled laptop and other devices would solve such problems and save administration and user assistance costs.
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UPEK, the leader in enterprise and consumer biometric fingerprint solutions, today announced availability of fingerprint authentication solutions for manufacturers of netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) to integrate into these new classes of portable, internet-connected computing devices. UPEK’s Fingerprint Authentication Solutions for netbooks and MIDs feature the latest generation TouchStrip® TCS5 Fingerprint Sensor optimized for compact, low-cost, low-power devices, and Fingerprint Suite™ Starter software that allows users to access password protected websites with the simple swipe of a finger.
a shift in the way people interact with their devices and access the Internet,” said Vito Fabbrizio, Senior Director of OEM Marketing at UPEK. “Building on UPEK’s experience in making fingerprint sensors ubiquitous in laptop computers, we are also pleased to help OEMs and ODMs offer their netbook and MID customers with an innovative user experience that fits their new approach to computing.”
