Selected by Westchester County, NY for Leading Fingerprint Biometric Authentication Solution
Tuckahoe, NY - July 13, 2006 - CryptoMetrics®, Inc. a leading global provider of state-of-the-art biometric solutions to government, aviation security, law enforcement, military, homeland security and commercial markets, today announced that its FingerSURE Enterprise Technology has been selected by Westchester County’s Information Technology Group to provide the highest level of secure access to critical county and government data and systems. FingerSURE Enterprise requires users to provide fingerprint authentication to access any workstation connected to the system, while substantially reducing costs associated to password administration and management.
The FingerSURE solution delivered by CryptoMetrics, through integration with other trusted biometric devices, also allows users to be authenticated for physical access to county buildings and facilities. Westchester County is an immediate suburb of New York City, comprised of 43 municipalities and over 980,000 residents.
CryptoMetrics Co-CEO Robert Barra noted - “We are pleased to assist Westchester County in their initiatives to protect their most important systems and data. CryptoMetrics is very focused on delivering end-to-end biometric solutions and the combined physical and logical access control provided by FingerSURE is a perfect example of that effort.”
About FingerSURE: FingerSURE Enterprise 7.0 is a comprehensive fingerprint biometric authentication offering available to companies and organizations of all sizes. It offers companies and employees the ability to authenticate their identity at any place or time while connected to the corporate network by simply using their fingerprint. It also provides a single point of administration for user and biometric authentication management. In addition, the audit capabilities provided in the FingerSURE line of products allows companies to comply with all industry and government policy and procedures requiring absolute identification of individuals and transactions.
About CryptoMetrics
Established in 2000, CryptoMetrics is a leading provider of biometric solutions, building and integrating state-of-the-art systems designed to proactively protect the critical infrastructure of a nation and its businesses, including vital cyber assets. As part of its portfolio, CryptoMetrics offers an extensive bi-modal array of biometric devices, software and customized services including both fingerprint and facial recognition technologies.
While CryptoMetrics’ fingerprint authentication product solutions secure the transfer of and protect logical and physical points of access to critical systems and data, the Company’s facial recognition products are designed to secure national borders, protect the traveling public, strengthen the security of travel and ID document issuance through comprehensive "identity management” and enhance personal identification in support of law enforcement, homeland security and first responder activities.
Contact:
James McCusker
Integrated Corporate Relations
(203) 682-8245
jmccusker@icrinc.com |
