Anakam’s focus is on bringing low cost two-factor authentication to the masses, says J. Brent Williams, chief technology officer at Anakam. The company does this using out-of-band authentication technology such as text messaging, voice to telephone or voice biometrics.

Anakam announced that HEALTHeLINK, the Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, based in Buffalo, N.Y., has selected the Anakam Identity Suite to provide trusted access to the private health information of the more than 1.5 million patients in the community.

Ceelox has announced that it has finished development of a prototype application that would use Ceelox’s fingerprint biometrics to enable biometric authentication in online environments such as corporate intranets, cloud computing networks and commercial applications like online banking and other personal account-based access.

After six months of internal testing, Cloudkick Web application has chosen Yubico’s USB-key multi-factor authentication product as an option for customer login. The YubiKey aims to add another layer of security for customers managing their cloud servers.