BIO-key Puts Finger on Biometric ID Platform for Smartphones
Company introduces its mobile biometric identification and authentication platform to the Oracle Partner Network from the Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Diego.
Channel pros will have new tools at their disposal for protecting sensitive data on mobile devices.
In Oracle Corp.’s Hospitality Suite at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Diego Wednesday, biometric identification solutions developer BIO-key International Inc. announced a mobile biometric identification and authentication platform. The innovation makes it possible for businesses to capture and transmit fingerprint biometric data to a secure server for identity authentication of smartphone, laptop, tablet, and desktop users.
The Burton Group Catalyst Conference is a five-day conference that explores emerging technologies as well as the ideas and challenges facing businesses today. BIO-key is a Gold level member of the Oracle Partner Network. BIO-key partners include Oracle, IBM, Computer Associates, and Evidian.
“We live in a world with 24/7 access to information from mobile devices,” says BIO-key CEO Mike DePasquale. “Application providers and enterprise IT professionals have been struggling with how they can quickly, conveniently, and accurately establish the identity of remote users looking to access their sites and applications.”
DePasquale adds, “With the anticipated ubiquity of fingerprint-enabled smartphones, such as the LG eXpo, application providers now have a more secure and convenient alternative to passwords for remote users to establish their identity.”
According to DePasquale, fingerprint biometric identity solutions have long been running in retail, financial, healthcare, education, and civil applications using laptops, tablets, and desktops equipped with fingerprint readers to authenticate user identity. “Now,” he says, “BIO-key has a fast, secure, and convenient identity and authentication solution for businesses that need to establish the identity of smartphone users.”
“The BIO-key fingerprint biometric software protects user privacy while providing … an alternative to passwords and tokens for a person remotely accessing an enterprise application,” says Dr. Ronald D. Black, chairman and CEO of UPEK, a biometric fingerprint solutions provider. “With the simple touch of a finger, BIO-key’s identification software can quickly search a database of authorized users to positively establish the identity of a remote user.”
