• Verification, which requires an accompanying user ID, password or PIN to perform a 'one to one match' to establish a person's identity. This technique does not prevent a person enrolling into a system under multiple identities/names and requires the deployment and the associated upkeep of the user ID, password, PIN or token..
• Identification, which requires only a biometric sample, such as a fingerprint, and nothing else. The user does not have to remember anything, cannot lose anything, and is protected against identity transfer and theft.

The ability to actually identify users is the most critical element of personal and application security. After all, what good are firewalls, smart cards, digital certificates, passwords, and data encryption if you are dealing with the wrong person?

Identification technology

Verification technology

• Protection against data loss: When you integrate BIO-key technology into your applications, your employees, customers, or business partners no longer need passwords, cards or tokens that can be exchanged or stolen. Your proprietary data is more secure when protected by biometric data alone.
• Lower administration costs: Once users register their fingers in a BIO-key system, no ongoing administration is necessary. Unlike passwords, which require regular updates and changes, fingerprints are good for life.
• Lower support costs: BIO-key systems eliminate help desk calls for forgotten passwords or PINs. (A national survey showed that help desk calls for forgotten passwords cost $150 to $300 annually per person for every person on the system!)
• Protection against fraud: With BIO-key, there is no reason for customers to continually send credit card numbers or other sensitive information over the Internet.
• Consumer confidence: Although many individuals participate in Internet commerce, many more are afraid to purchase online because of discomfort with security levels. The superior security provided by BIO-key technology increases consumer confidence and helps you get and keep customers.
• Signature guarantee: If you accept digital signatures or e-sign, can you be sure that the signature really belongs to the party using it? BIO-key can be employed to guarantee digital signatures.

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• An open architecture integrates easily into existing applications and databases.
• Speed! Our algorithm identifies users in 2 seconds or less, regardless of database size. This makes BIO-key an ideal security solution for companies both large and small.
• Flexibility. Our technology works with many different fingerprint reading devices from multiple manufacturers.
• Highly accurate. The performance rate of our finger identification algorithm reaches far beyond industry standards.
• Web compatibility to any ISP.
• Multi-layer, triple encryption to prevent fraudulent capture or replay of fingerprint data.
• Compatible with virtually every major fingerprint readermanufacturer, giving you flexibility to choose the reader for your application. With a single enrollment, install different readers for desktops, laptops, public portals, PDAs, wireless devices and doors (entry access)!