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Key Source launches integrated desktop keyboard

Thursday, August 11, 2011

At the VARTECH conference, Key Source International will introduce a new desktop keyboard that integrates various authentication options.

The KSI-1700 line allows users to customize which authentication inputs they want in a desktop keyboard. Possible features include biometric fingerprint readers, NFC, contactless smart cards and secure session-locking walk away systems. The keyboard itself is a thin, ergonomic design.

The system is targeted mainly to the health care, government and banking industries. [end] 

DigitalPersona Inc. released a new version of its DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise software that includes facial recognition as a method for authentication.

Facial recognition can now be combined with fingerprint biometrics, passwords, PINs, proximity cards, smart cards and OATH tokens for a multi-factor authentication solution. Policy creation and enforcement works through a client’s existing Active Directory infrastructure.

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Sensor supplier Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has extended its partnership with Chinese biometrics provider Miaxis Biometrics Co. LTD to deliver biometrics products to the Chinese banking sector.

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Key Source International announced that it has integrated the Lumidigm Mariner fingerprint reader into the KSI-1700 professional series keyboard system. Offering integrated security and auto ID in a HIPAA-compliant desktop solution, the KSI-1700 keyboard system with the Lumidigm reader will be introduced at HIMSS in Las Vegas.

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Key Source International announced GSA approval for it’s biometric keyboard and stand-alone biometric pod. KSI products are approved under FIPS 201 for Federal Employees and civilian contractors.

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