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Gold/Mining/Energy : MYT - Mytec Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mappingworld who wrote (1500)	3/20/2000 9:33:00 AM
From: Dan Hamilton	Respond to of 1535

Competitor to MYT - a Lucent spin off... MAR 8, 2000, M2 Communications - SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Veridicom, Inc., the leading provider of silicon-based fingerprint authentication solutions, today announced its key development role in the Intel Protected Access Architecture (IPAA), a breakthrough architecture that prevents unauthorized access to mobile computers. Intel Protected Access Architecture requires users of a mobile personal computer (PC) to verify their identity with a fingerprint or other authentication method during the pre-boot process. Only enrolled users attempting to boot the PC are allowed access to the operating system (OS) or to valuable stored data. During the last two years, Veridicom has been working closely with the IPAA development team to help produce this new architecture for interfacing fingerprint authentication devices to mobile PCs. Intel announced Intel Protected Access Architecture today at the Mobile Insights 2000 Conference in Desert Springs, Calif., and demonstrated the new architecture at the conference using a Veridicom 5thSense Personal Authentication System. "Intel Protected Access Architecture ushers in an entirely new era of mobile computing security that eliminates the need for passwords, which can be forgotten or stolen," said Naeem Zafar, vice president of marketing at Veridicom. "Since Veridicom's mission has always been to enable next-generation authentication solutions that are both secure and convenient, we were very excited to play an important role in the implementation of this security architecture." "Intel Protected Access Architecture can help ensure that only the authorized user has access to the data inside the system, and also acts as a deterrent to potential thieves from physically stealing the system, " said Frank Spindler, vice president and director of Intel's Mobile Computing Group. "Veridicom's contribution to this important architecture provided Intel with the fingerprint authentication technology needed to make mobile PCs more secure." Today's methods of securing mobile PC hardware and data are limited to cables and locks, BIOS passwords, and encryption schemes. With the Intel Protected Access Architecture, a user authentication application program interface (API) provides an interface between authentication devices and the system BIOS. Instead of storing fingerprint templates or other authorization matching data in CMOS memory, matching data is stored in special non-volatile protected storage memory. Unless the user is correctly identified using a fingerprint, smart card, USB token or other identifier, access to the operating system is completely blocked during the Power-on System Test (POST) routine, making the mobile PC completely useless to a thief or other unauthorized user. About Veridicom Veridicom, Inc. is the leading provider of security and privacy solutions for the corporate Internet/Intranet users based on fingerprint authentication, smart cards and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure). The company develops and markets a complete system that includes Veridicom's patented silicon-based, postage-stamp-sized, fingerprint sensors and a rich suite of authentication software designed to work with corporate networks and the Internet. Veridicom has leveraged its unique architecture to become the first fingerprint authentication system integrated into laptops now being shipped by several PC OEMs. Veridicom's Personal Authentication System is available as a certified ThinkPad Proven peripheral through the IBM Web site. Veridicom's solution enables secure PC and network log-on, secure PasswordBank (replacing passwords with a touch of a finger), secure Web access, as well as products for digital signing of documents to automate e-business. Veridicom was one of the first venture businesses to be spun off by Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), using technology from Lucent's Bell Laboratories.