Template on Card Demonstrations to Be Held in Identix Booth
At CardTech/SecurTech in New Orleans, April 23-25
LOS GATOS, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Identix Incorporated (Nasdaq: IDNX), a worldwide leader in providing
fingerprint biometric security identification and authentication solutions,
announced today that it has launched its BioCard(TM) Software Developers Kit,
enabling integration of fingerprint biometric templates on smart cards.
Identix will demonstrate biometric template on card at CardTech/SecurTech,
April 23-25 in New Orleans, booth 873, as a critical component of its new
security paradigm, Continuity of Authentication(TM).
Identix Chairman & CEO Bob McCashin commented, "As the data on smart cards
become more valuable, the need to ensure that the right person is accessing
the right information or entering an authorized facility is critical to
prevent fraudulent and criminal activities. Today, the weakest link in smart
card security is the method used for identifying and authenticating the true
card owner. We believe that simply requiring knowledge of a 4-digit PIN-code
or PUK-code to verify smart card ownership is unreliable and very risky."
Authentication is the essential component for security because it is the
gatekeeper or "lock" on the security system. If an imposter gets past the
"lock" of authentication (via compromised PIN, for example), the system
believes the imposter holding the smart card is the rightful card owner. The
authorization and administration components then obligingly give the imposter
all the rights and privileges of the rightful smart card owner.
Biometrics is the authentication mechanism that, combined with smart card
technology, ensures this scenario cannot occur. Identix believes that smart
cards integrating biometrics provides a significantly heightened and more
reliable method verify that the true, rightful smart card owner is present and
can participate in transactions.
The benefits of biometric authentication used in combination with smart
cards includes:
-- Protects against card content alteration or modification.
-- Supports secure transmission of data into or out of the card.
-- Prevents individuals not biometrically matching the template on the
card from using the card.
-- Secures on-card functionality, such as private keys for encryption and
decryption.
Identix' BioCard SDK is available now to smart card manufacturer's and
integrators, enabling them to integrate fingerprint biometrics on to a card.
Identix, as a market leader in fingerprint biometrics makes available its
time-proven, robust algorithms in the BioCard SDK, enabling optimum speed and
accuracy of matching via Identix BioEngine(TM) as well as ease of integration.
Key features of the BioCard SDK include:
-- Supports multifactor authentication including PINs
-- Minimal coding enabling integration of most applications and Java
applets within hours using function calls
-- Future support for Match-on-Card capabilities
Identix is currently working with major smart card manufacturers to
integrate its BioCard SDK with their smart cards.
About Identix
Identix Incorporated, http://www.Identix.com , is a leader in designing,
developing, manufacturing and marketing products for the capture and/or
comparison of fingerprints for security, anti-fraud, law enforcement, physical
access and other applications. Identix designs and develops proprietary,
cost-effective, security products and solutions for personal identification
and verification. Through itrust(TM), Identix offers an array of Internet and
wireless web secure transaction processing services, and provides a wide range
of applications to markets that include corporate enterprise security,
Intranet, extranet, and Internet, wireless Web access and security,
E-commerce, government and law enforcement agencies.
The statements in this release that relate to future plans, events or
performance are forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current
expectations, assumptions and estimates of future performance and economic
conditions. Such statements are made in reliance on the safe harbor
provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of
1934. The Company cautions investors that any forward looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied in such forward looking statements.
Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks and
uncertainties arising out of or related to: development of the marketplace for
biometrics solutions; demand for the Company's products and services; the
ability of the Company's alliances to succeed and in particular, the ability
of the Company to complete product development, successfully manufacture its
products in volume and broadly disseminate the Company's products; increasing
levels of competition in the space for wired and wireless web security
services; the perceived need for secure communications and commerce in such
markets; the proposed merger between Identix and
Visionics Corporation (Nasdaq: VSNX), such as obtaining regulatory and
shareholder approval, fulfilling the conditions set forth in the definitive
merger agreement for the closing of the anticipated transaction, and the
timing of the closing of the transaction; and other risks as identified in the
Company's SEC filings. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to
publicly update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or
circumstances that occur after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
For further information, please contact: investors, Damon Wright,
Director of Investor Relations and Public Relations of Identix Incorporated,
+1-408-335-1400, dwright@identix.com.
SOURCE Identix Incorporated
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CONTACT:
investors, Damon Wright, Director of Investor
Relations and Public Relations of Identix Incorporated,
+1-408-335-1400, dwright@identix.com
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