DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk Delivers Fast, Secure and Convenient Computer Access

JUNE 13, 2005

REDWOOD CITY, CA—Digital Persona, Inc., the leading provider of fingerprint-based authentication solutions, today announced DigitalPersona® Pro™ Kiosk™. This latest addition to DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise Software provides fast, secure and convenient access to shared computer environments, such as healthcare, retail point of sale and manufacturing lines, where multiple users share workstations running mission- and life-critical applications.

Secure Conscious, Fast-Paced Environments

Many enterprises and organizations are faced with fast-paced environments in which groups of users need rapid access to critical applications running on multiple computers. Access to these applications is time-consuming and security is often circumvented for the sake of convenience. Users will walk away from computers rather than logging off, leaving applications open with sensitive data exposed, or will share simple passwords, which are easily guessed. Lacking a secure and convenient authentication solution, enterprises run severe security risks and regulation compliance violations.

DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk extends Pro Workstation’s functionality to shared computer and user environments by:

•Providing users with secure and rapid logon to shared PCs, their domains, programs and Web sites without logging on and off
Providing the convenience of single sign-on without using passwords, eliminating the need for plug-ins or development for every application used

•Logging all access activity, to a standardized format, for regulation compliance reporting

•“The real beauty of this software is that it allows us to avoid having to log all the way out of Windows dozens of times a day,” said Guy Mecabe, Information Systems Chief, Wastewater Division of the Public Works Department, City of Orlando. “With DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk, any one of our kiosk users can simply put their fingers on the fingerprint reader and instantly unlock Windows without waiting for the typical login delay time.”

About DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk

Since its debut in 2000, DigitalPersona Pro has offered a compelling alternative to traditional authentication solutions. Built upon Digital Persona’s award-winning fingerprint recognition technology, DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk delivers a client-server solution that is low-cost, easily deployed, and fits into existing shared computer workflow environments.
All of this is accomplished through the touch of a finger onto a DigitalPersona U.are.U® fingerprint reader. Computers running DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk through the use of DigitalPersona Pro Server™ are centrally-managed by leveraging existing infrastructure in Windows Active Directory.

Key features of DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk include:

	•Secure and rapid access utilizing Digital Persona’s solution to network and computer access •One Touch® Logon •One Touch® Unlock •Convenient access using Digital Persona’s solution to single sign-on •One Touch® SignOn •Accountability for compliance requirements •Event Logging

“Key customers shared with us their concerns for meeting security and compliance objectives and together we defined a solution that met those requirements,” Digital Persona CEO Fabio Righi says. “DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk provides one more example that fingerprints are the best solution for authentication by delivering fast access and convenience to shared-user work environments without compromising security”.

Operating System Support

DigitalPersona Kiosk runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. DigitalPersona Pro Server runs on Microsoft® Windows 2000 Server™ or Microsoft® Windows 2003 Server.

About Digital Persona

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., Digital Persona is the leading provider of secure, convenient and flexible fingerprint-based authentication solutions for enterprise networks and industrial applications. Digital Persona has over five million users utilizing almost one million readers and over 400 corporate customers implementing Digital Persona’s identity management solutions deployed in banking, retail, government and healthcare environments worldwide.

Digital Persona has strategic relationships with market-making manufacturers and resellers including Intel® Corporation, Dell® Inc., Gateway®, GTSI® Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Company. DigitalPersona Pro, the company's flagship fingerprint-based authentication solution, is used by leading enterprises such as The U.S. Department of Defense, Cargill®, Telmex®, The United Bankers' Bank and Sutter Health/CPMC. Industrial applications such as fingerprint-enabled ATMs, lockers and time-and-attendance solutions, have been developed by users of Digital Persona software development kits, targeted at integrators and developers.