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Ceelox announces new server-based solution

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Ceelox, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced a new product aimed at securing networks specific to a manufacturing environment. The new solution, called Ceelox ID Server, is a network solution that touts the ability to streamline the production process, reduce cycle time and improve organizational security and comes integrated with Honeywell POMS process control systems and Citrix servers.


As controls systems are frequently seen as the heart of the systems manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies depend on, Ceelox saw the opportunity to better protect sensitive information traveling through the control systems to the servers.

The Citrix and Honeywell solutions both serve specific purposes intended to better protect and more efficiently move information through the process control system, and Ceelox’s solution is the next layer that simply protects the information traveling through eliminating account lock-outs and combining the old password system with its biometric authentication. [end] 

DigitalPersona announced the release of a new version of its Pro Enterprise software solution, version 5.2.

Among the aspects of the new version DigitalPersona is touting are the extensive number of factors a company utilizing the solution can use to authenticate for access to sensitive information or secured computer stations. These factors include what a user knows, such as PINs or passwords, things you have, such as smart cards, contactless identity cards or Bluetooth devices, and things you are, such as fingerprints.

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UnboundID, a provider of identity data solutions for cloud, telco, and enterprise computing, released products based on the Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) standard. By supporting SCIM, UnboundID can provide a standardized and simpler solution for organizations provisioning and managing user identities across multiple cloud-based services, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings.

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Online identity protection provider Yubico and cloud server security provider CloudPassage have teamed up to provide authentication services for administrative network access in the cloud.

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Ceelox has announced that it has developed a new solution for biometric-based login to cloud-based applications.

The solution, called Ceelox ID Online, utilizes their own fingerprint authentication in conjunction with OpenID protocol to allow for login to any of the accounts that OpenID services such as Facebook, Yahoo!, Google and many others.

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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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A state audit found that personal and financial information for students considering attending the University of Maryland were stored on publicly accessible servers that could make students easy prey to ID thieves.

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