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Databac announces new contactless, biometric products

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Databac has announced that it will will be demonstrating a range of contactless and biometric solutions for access control, time & attendance, logical access and asset management at the Salón Internacional de la Seguridad, March 2-5 in Madrid.

Among these will be Databac’s line of UHF Gen2 cards, boasting a read range of more than three meters, and the company’s slimline “vandal-proof” 125Khz / 13.56Mhz RFID card/tag and biometric readers.


For logical security, Databac will show Fujitsu’s PalmSecure (palm vein) desktop logon scanner, HID-on-the-Desktop Windows logon solutions and Omnikey readers for use with the new Spanish ID smart card (DNI).

To address security concerns about the use of contactless cards and passports, Databac will show a range of FIPS 201-approved card holders from Identity Stronghold. These protect Mifare, UHF and other contactless credentials from being read or cloned and prevent invasive communications such as relaying, eavesdropping, cloning and tracking of ID, debit and credit cards.

Besides RF and biometric technologies, Databac will also focus on visitor management. With the company’s electronic visitor systems, visitor data can be captured automatically from a DNI or other card using Databac’s new ID card / passport scanner. This is imported directly into the software and a card or paper pass is printed.

A range of cards, card printers and card accessories, including environmentally-friendly card holders, lanyards and clips, will also be on display. [end] 

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Among the aspects of the new version DigitalPersona is touting are the extensive number of factors a company utilizing the solution can use to authenticate for access to sensitive information or secured computer stations. These factors include what a user knows, such as PINs or passwords, things you have, such as smart cards, contactless identity cards or Bluetooth devices, and things you are, such as fingerprints.

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Auraya Systems announced the commercial release of its voice authentication solution called ArmorVox Speaker Identity System.

The solution, which was developed for system developers and call centers as either an enterprise or cloud-based solution, fuses text-independent and text-dependent voice-verification that automatically detect languages.

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ImageWare Systems announced that the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency that oversees Los Angeles International (LAX) airport, LA/Ontario International airport and Van Nuys airport, has placed an order for a number of biometric identity management and credentialing solutions.

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A Japanese researcher has developed a biometric that could be used to protect a car from theft: butt biometrics, according to verge.com.

Shigeomi Koshimizu, an associate professor at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo has developed the technology. A seat pressure map to generates 39 indices that are used to uniquely identify a subject’s posterior. Results so far have been encouraging, with average false reject rates of 2.2% and false accept rates of 1.1%.

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Key Source International (KSI) has announced the release of a new line of computer keyboards that offer a number of security input options.

Among the various embedded options for securely authenticating one’s identity in the keyboard, called the KSI-1700, are biometrics, RFID, HID and contactless smart cards as well as technology called SonarLocID, which automatically locks a user’s workstation when they walk away.

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Multicard, a unit of Identive Group that supplies credential, identity management and system integration services, has signed a contract with global consumer products company Henkel to provide a global multi-function identity credential service card to Henkel employees.

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