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Biometrics

SafeGuard PDA

Company: Utimaco Safeware
Pricing: $35.69

PDAs are so portable as to make them susceptible to loss or theft - in a business environment the net result of this can range from inconvenience and embarrassment, right on up to serious problems with the regulatory authorities. Which is where SafeGuard PDA enters the frame. Like similar offerings ...

 

SafeGuard PDA Enterprise (Biometrics 2004 group test)

Company: Utimaco
Pricing: $80

This might appear to be a slightly unusual product to include in this group test, but it qualifies as a potential biometric due to the use of signature verification, or fingerprints where applicable.

 

ClipDriveBio

Company: Memory Experts

While flash drives are all the rage, they can be pretty insecure; to lose it is quite easy as they are so small. Should sensitive material be placed on one such drive, a thief would find getting information off such a device to be a walk ...

 

LockBox

Company: Micro Solutions Inc
Pricing: $199.00
USB hard drives are getting more popular these days but there aren't many on the market that offer the kind of security that is needed keep confidential data out of the wrong hands.

Micro-Solutions have a nifty device that combines a hard drive with a fingerprint sensor. The ...

 

BioPico (Mobile Security group test)

Company: Chrison Limited
Pricing: $210

Chrison takes security seriously with three specific portable devices available, all using different technology and design methodology. The BioPico, as its name suggests, is a 128MB biometric USB storage device, small enough to look unimpressive, but big enough to be used safely without being too small.

 

BioDisk Biometric Flash Disk (Biometrics 2004 group test)

Company: CardMedia (Europe) Ltd
Pricing: from $85 for 64MB version

USB portable storage devices (or "sticks" as otherwise known) have become very popular as a handy means of carrying around your data, but what happens when you misplace the device? How safe is your data? OK, you could encrypt all the files on the device, but many users will simply ...

 

SecuGen OptiMouse III (Biometrics 2004 group test)

Company: SecuGen
Pricing: $139

The SecuGen Mouse takes a different approach to providing fingerprint biometric logon facilities, in that it combines a good-quality optical fingerprint reader with an equally good-quality optical mouse.

 

SAFsolution Workstation Bundle (Biometrics 2004 group test)

Company: Saflink Corp.
Pricing: $129

Saflink is a well-known and well-respected company within the biometrics arena, with many successful customized implementations to its credit. It seems like a natural progression, therefore, for it to bring its experience and expertise to the broader commercial product area.

 

U.are.U Pro for Active Directory (Biometrics group test)

Company: DigitalPersona
Pricing: $149 per desktop

The U.are.U Pro for Active Directory from Digital Persona is, as its name suggests, a product to bring biometric identity verification to a Windows Active Directory environment (including Windows Server 2003). It may be fully integrated at server level or used on a standalone workstation.

 

SystemsGuard KB (Biometrics group test)

Company: Guardware Systems
Pricing: $295

Guardware produces a variety of innovative products, all of which have been well received. It was interesting, therefore, to see a keyboard product with integral fingerprint reader from this Hungarian company (although the keyboard is actually made in China).