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Telefnica deploys Authenware keystroke biometrics

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Authenware announced an agreement with Telefnica, a telecommunications company, to employing Authenware’s security features.

Under the deal, Telefnica’s login portals will be armed with the Authentest software, granting access to valid users by analyzing keystroke patterns and typing behaviors.


With the agreement, Authenware will initially provide its services to Telefnica employees within the Information and Fraud Prevention division. Once Authentest is implemented internally, the keystroke biometric software will then be incorporated into other critical access points. [end] 

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Shigeomi Koshimizu, an associate professor at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo has developed the technology. A seat pressure map to generates 39 indices that are used to uniquely identify a subject’s posterior. Results so far have been encouraging, with average false reject rates of 2.2% and false accept rates of 1.1%.

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The software from AuthenWare is their keystroke authentication software which determines a user’s identity based off the unique patterns he types with.

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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for proposals for research projects that could yield new biometric systems that authenticate users based on their own unique movements or behaviors such as the way they type or move a mouse, according to a ZDNet article.

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Information delivery company Colt has licensed Cryptocard’s BlackShield authentication-as-a-service platform to enhance its virtual desktop infrastructure with secure remote access for up to 5,000 employees.

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