Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, received an honor at the Government Security News Homeland Security Awards gala in Washington DC. The company’s government-certified Personal Identity Verification credential won the Best Smart Card Solution award. This Gemalto identity credential allows government agencies to link existing proximity-based physical access control systems and new FIPS 201-compliant…
Tag: biometric
Increased security in PIV programs with new fingerprint reader
Precise Biometrics releases a fingerprint reader for embedded, secure handling of fingerprint extraction and verification – the Precise 250 PIV. The combined fingerprint and smart card reader embeds ANSI 378 technology and builds on the top-ranking fingerprint extractor in the US interoperability program Ongoing MINEX. The readers are made in the US and available the…
Positive developments for Precise Biometrics – Interim report (Q3)
Interim Report for the period January – September 2010 The group’s net sales for the interim period amounted to SEK 38.6 million (36.5) and for the third quarter SEK 12.2 million (14.6). The group’s gross profit for the interim period amounted to SEK 23.3 million (19.5) and for the third quarter SEK 6.9 million (5.2). The group’s…
BIO-key International and Medflow Partner to Deliver Fingerprint Biometrics to Protect Electronic Health Records
BIO-key International, Inc., a finger-based biometric identification solutions provider for the healthcare industry, and Medflow Incorporated, the market leader in the development of electronic health records software solely dedicated to eye care physicians, announced the release of TruStaffTMfingerprint biometric log-in for securing access to Medflow Electronic Health Records (EHR). “BIO-key’s TruStaff fingerprint biometric log-in delivers a…
Biometrics for use in identification
By Emmanuel Ventadour, Gemalto Biometric technology can be found more and more in a large variety of ID applications, ranging from national ID documents, to travel documents and electronic healthcare cards. This article aims to give a short overview of the benefits of biometrics as well as provide some appropriate case studies. The fight against…