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Ritech, Orangecorp partner to market new security solution

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

As software security breach is becoming more prevalent, Ritech International B.V. enlists Orangecorp B.V as its marketing partner in hopes to greater expose their products in the market. Orangecorp B.V. will be in charge of inventory supply in Ritech new hub in Europe, getting access into the European Market.

The company’s products, Signature and the newest Signature Lite, are Biometrics encrypted hardware solutions. Signature Lite features a three protection layer system.


The first layer consists of fingerprint protection and authentication process restricting, followed by an epoxy layer, and finally a series of algorithms at the Government ‘Top Secret’ level.

While the original Signature product targeted the government and financial services sectors, Signature Lite will broaden the demographic for data loss prevention solutions. New markets are expected to include the financial, health care and local government industries. [end] 

Gemalto announced the launch of ProtivaMedSecure, a solution package that addresses one of challenges facing health care providers: a secure digital identity.

Gemalto’s Protiva MedSecure provides a portfolio of authentication software, digital credentials, secure devices, servers and associated services. The Gemalto solution provides a single credential for secure visual identity, as well as physical and logical access to medical facilities and electronic medical records.

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Data input technology company Access IS has become a strategic partner with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) so that it can help develop a standard to enable the airline industry to adopt NFC technology for secure, efficient passenger processing.

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British journal Benchmark Magazine, a monthly publication about security technology, found after testing a variety of fingerprint readers, that those using multispectral imaging provide more consistent readings than those relying on optical scans only.

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LEGIC Identsystems Ltd expanded its partner network in Southern Europe with the announcement of a joint venture with Spain-based security company Softmachine Systems.

The new affiliation aims to produce contactless access control solutions and installations for multifunctional visitor management including applications for electronic payment and time and attendance.

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BT and Hitachi Europe Ltd. announced that they are jointly designing an identity management solution for the financial services market. In this move, BT is introducing BT Unified Trading federation, a cloud-based trust utility for secure identity exchange and will incorporate Hitachi’s Finger Vein Authentication Engine and technology to offer biometric security capabilities.

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MarketsandMarkets has released a new report predicting that the NFC applications market will surpass $10 billion by 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 38% from 2011 to 2016.

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