News and insight into biometric identification and authentication

Validity gets $10M in investor financing

Friday, March 13, 2009

Validity Sensors, a biometrics developer specializing in fingerprint authentication, has announced that it has received a commitment for up to $10 million in financing from its current investors.

The investment was necessary to expand to Validity’s 2008 release of the VFS201 fingerprint readers that were embedded in many HP and Acer notebooks. Now the company is able to add new features to their sensors including custom colors and backlit LED options as well as look into expanding into new markets. [end] 

The Dutch Ministry of Defense (MoD) has chosen Identive’s SmartFold smart card readers to provide secure remote network access for its employees.

The agency has a lot of restricted and sensitive data that has particular management requirements. The MoD felt that the Identive contact smart card reader would provide the desired level of security, yet be flexible enough to incorporate into the existing network security infrastructure.

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Digital Certificate provider GlobalSign has launched an identity certificate product designed specifically for authentication of iOS devices.

The iOS Identity Certificates provide authentication services that give enterprises more control over mobile devices that attempt to access corporate business services and networks.

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Auto-resolution technology provider Aeptra and authentication services firm TrustID have formed a technology partnership to improve financial institutions’ ability to recognize and prevent telephone-based fraud.

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Auraya Systems announced the commercial release of its voice authentication solution called ArmorVox Speaker Identity System.

The solution, which was developed for system developers and call centers as either an enterprise or cloud-based solution, fuses text-independent and text-dependent voice-verification that automatically detect languages.

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Personal information of 9,000 current and prospective students was inadvertently posted online by Valencia College in Orlando. The school has apologized for the mistake.

The information included the students’ names, addresses, dates of birth and student ID numbers but not their Social Security numbers or financial information.

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The First National Bank (FNB) in South Africa has implemented a biometric identification system enabling customers of the bank to secure access to their accounts with their fingerprints, according to a Business Live article.

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