Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

Authenware supplies keystroke biometrics to Criterion HPS

Friday, May 1, 2009

Authenware, a provider of security software, announced Criterion HPS will resell Authentest, a keystroke biometrics technology, with The Cube, a high-speed, small-footprint computing appliance.

The agreement enables Criterion HPS to augment cyber-protection in their computing appliances by incorporating Authentest’s identity authentication technology into supercomputers. A collection of Criterion HPS devices will be pre-configured with Authenware’s keystroke biometric software in order to supply consumers with a user-ready product. [end] 

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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AuthenWare has announced a reseller agreement with 2Keys Security Solutions, an information technology security company, allowing 2Keys to resell AuthenWare’s behavioral biometrics software.

The software from AuthenWare is their keystroke authentication software which determines a user’s identity based off the unique patterns he types with.

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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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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for proposals for research projects that could yield new biometric systems that authenticate users based on their own unique movements or behaviors such as the way they type or move a mouse, according to a ZDNet article.

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