AuthenTec to Discuss How Fingerprint Biometrics Protects Data and Prevents Identity Theft at ID WORLD International Congress.ROME & MELBOURNE, Fla. -- AuthenTec, the world leader in fingerprint sensor innovation and sales for more than five years, will explain the benefits of biometric security to protect data and prevent identity theft on November 4th at ID WORLD International Congress in Rome, Italy. The presentation will be held at the Aurelia Convention Centre & Expo at 11:00 a.m. Marc Gebert, AuthenTec Director of European Sales & Marketing, will present an overview of fingerprint biometric technology and discuss how to improve security while enhancing convenience by using fingerprint biometrics. Mr. Gebert will highlight real-life applications such as biometrically-enabled PCs, kiosks and others. He also will share results from a consumer survey showing increased demand for fingerprint biometrics. AuthenTec sensors are used in more than 5 million devices worldwide -- combining security with a broad range of features and functions that are controlled at the simple touch or swipe of a finger. In security, the sensor can replace passwords and authenticate the user or can be used as a secondary level in addition to the password (two-factor authentication The use of two independent mechanisms for authentication; for example, requiring a smart card and a password. The combination is less likely to allow abuse than either component alone. See authentication. ) -- protecting both the stored information and the physical device. More than 100 different notebook and tablet computers, portable hard drives, mice, keyboards, memory keys, cell phones and other devices currently incorporate AuthenTec products. Mainstream PC manufacturers that use the company's sensors include HP, Fujitsu Computer, Toshiba, Samsung, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Packard Bell, APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. and many others. About AuthenTec With more than five million sensors in use worldwide, AuthenTec is the world leader in fingerprint sensor innovation and sales to the PC, wireless, and access control markets. AuthenTec's award-winning FingerLoc(R) and EntrePad(R) sensors take full advantage of The Power of Touch by utilizing the company's patented TruePrint(R) technology to deliver the most convenient, reliable and cost-effective means available for enabling touch-powered features that extend beyond user authentication. The company's network of partners, solution providers and customers include: Analog Devices, APC, Compal, Cherry, Fujitsu Computer, Computer Associates, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , LGE LGE LG Electronics LGE Local Government Employers (UK) LGE Laser Guided Energy LGE Louisville Gas & Electric LGE Loop or Ground-start, Exchange (Newbridge) , Medion, Microsoft, Motion Computing, NEC Packard Bell, Pantech Pantech can be:-
n. Plural of quantum. , Samsung, Tatung, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and Wistron, among others. Visit www.authentec.com. |
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