Indigo Identityware and MorphoTrak have announced a collaboration to provide a biometric authentication product for the health care industry . Biometric authentication can be problematic in the health care industry due to the industry’s hygiene standards. Fingerprints can be compromised from frequent hand washing and contact with chemicals, which provide challenges to fingerprint authentication. MorphoTrak, […]

Goode Intelligence, an information security research and analysis specialist, has issued a new report that details an expectation of heavy growth in the biometric products and services for mobile phones over the next five years. Specifically, Goode forecasts a total revenue generation of $30 million from biometric mobile phone products and services in 2011 with […]

California-based authentication services provider BeyondTrust has launched PowerBroker Identity Services, an authentication platform for cross-platform and cloud-based environments. This product launch comes on the heels of its acquisition of Likewise Software, which gave BeyondTrust capabilities in inside perimeter privilege delegation and authentication and auditing management within the cloud. The PowerBroker platform features both an enterprise […]

Network security provider Stonesoft has released the 5.3 version of its StoneGate platform. The package, which includes StoneGate Firewall/VPN 5.3 and StoneGate Management Center 5.3 expands the platform’s security capabilities in three main areas. In terms of access control, the StoneGate 5.3 platform gives network administrators new methods of access control in terms criteria that […]

3M Cogent has announced the release of its new BioTrust biometric logon software developed to replace traditional usernames and passwords with biometrics. The new software is designed for use with Microsoft’s Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems and utilizes facial and fingerprint recognition to replace traditional means of a variety of logins. In […]

Munich-based Siemens AG has selected Verizon’s OmniRoot certificate chaining services to provide its global identity authentication. The Verizon product authorizes Siemens’ in-house PKI and user identity certificates and intends to increase the security of its internal and external communications, as well as Web application delivery. “It is increasingly difficult – but also increasingly important – […]

Transverse LLC has announced four new enhancements in the June rollout of its TRACT SaaS usage-based rating and billing solution. The new release incorporates SAML-based Single-Sign-On that enables TRACT users to connect to SaaS offerings. It allows users to connect cloud-based applications and establish a centralized identity management system within the cloud due to OASIS-defined […]

Ceelox has announced it has been issued a new patent by the U.S. Patent Office entitled “System And Method For Biometrically Secured, Transparent Encryption And Decryption.” The patent, which relates to the technology behind a biometrically enabled encryption and decryption of digital files, is used in Ceelox’ Vault, a fingerprint-based file encryption manager for either […]

Cloud-based identity and access management provider OneLogin closed a $1.5 million round of funding. The series A round came from Charles River Ventures, an existing investor in OneLogin. The Los Angeles-based company plans to use the funds to help it expand engineering, sales and product development functions. “We founded OneLogin on the premise that small […]

Microsoft has extended is smart card-based user authentication to work with Outlook Anywhere. This smart card authentication is fully supported for Outlook 2007 SP2 with Exchange 2010 SP1. Users who have Outlook 2010 cannot enable this authentication on their client access servers unless all connections can use smart card authentication. The authentication runs through a […]