Wyse Technology and Identix Team to Deliver Strong Biometric Security for Wyse Thin Clients

Combination of Identix Fingerprint Identification Technology with Wyse's Thin Clients Enables Greater Protection of Server Infrastructure and Valuable Digital Information

San Jose, CA – 2002/01/15 - Wyse Technology. "Thin clients are inherently more secure than personal computers, and the addition of biometric security devices offers greater desktop value to customers at a time when the need to protect information and reduce costs is growing exponentially."

Industry Applications for Biometric Security and Thin Clients

IT security is generally referred to by industry experts in terms of "factors," either one-factor, two-factor or three-factor. One-factor security is in place today in most systems, and is typically based on a "something you know" model such as user name and password. Wyse recently announced a two-factor security capability for thin clients in the form of smart card support, extending the "something you know", to "something you know and something you have" (the physical smart card). This announcement extends that security model to support three-factor security (something you know, something you have -- smart card, and something you are -- fingerprint) to provide the strongest security available in the industry.

"Identix' Biometric technology electronically extracts minutiae points from individual fingerprint images to create a template that acts as a unique ID for each user-an important additional layer of protection during a time of increased fraud control and heightened national security," said Grant Evans, executive vice president global strategy at Identix. "The combination of Wyse Technology's secure, managed thin-client solutions with Identix' BioLogon fingerprint technology allows organizations to employ what we believe are some of the strongest authentication methods available, while minimizing overhead costs for technology."

Several applications have the potential to become far safer with the biometric capability now available in Wyse thin clients. Airport airline reservation counters, hotel front desks, building security stations and human resources departments all benefit from keeping unwanted users out of sensitive servers and data. Thin clients are already being used in these environments and the addition of biometric support will further enhance an organization's ability to prevent unauthorized access.

The Identix Biometric Solution for Wyse Thin Clients

Identix BioLogon software captures, extracts and stores information on unique, individual physical/biological characteristics, such as fingerprints, and uses it thereafter to recognize the person. The integration of Identix' BioLogon enterprise solutions with Wyse's industry-leading thin clients will offer thin-client users a means of specific identification and added security, allowing organizations to enforce strong authentication methods, eliminating the need to issue multiple passwords and codes.

Thin Clients and Enterprise Security

Wyse's secure, managed thin clients help maximize IT budgets while minimizing the risk of unauthorized access to mission-critical information. thin clients deliver the key elements of security - authorization, authentication, integrity and confidentiality - through four levels of security that complement server-based software. These include a first-level user-name and password security shield built directly into the thin client, protecting the server from unauthorized access, support for smart cards and biometric authentication devices, the use of Citrix's Secure ICA protocol, providing up to 128-bit end-to-end encryption of an ICA data-stream, and the elimination of local storage that can fail or be hacked, causing important communication such as e-mail to be corrupted, modified or simply not received.

About Identix

Identix Incorporated, http://www.identix.com/, is a leader in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing products for the capture and/or comparison of fingerprints for security, anti-fraud, law enforcement, physical access and other applications. Identix designs and develops proprietary, cost-effective, security products and solutions for personal identification and verification. Through itrust™, Identix offers an array of Internet and wireless Web secure transaction processing services, and provides a wide range of applications to markets that include corporate enterprise security, Intranet, extranet, and Internet, wireless Web access and security, E-commerce, government and law enforcement agencies.

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