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The Scoop on Finger Biometrics

These days, each of us has a growing awareness of the risks involved in protecting IT-based resources from identity theft, malicious outside attacks, or generally inappropriate use. We are also seeing government and industry regulators issue strict mandates requiring companies to take significant steps to strengthen defenses against these misuses. As a result, many corporations are implementing multi-factor authentication policies that are much stronger than the password schemes that had been so commonplace in the past.

Strong authentication is the use of at least two factors to authenticate a user based on "What the user knows", "what the user has", and "who the user is". Discover the benefits of finger biometrics, and how combined with an ESSO solution, you can experience greatly enhanced IT security necessary for your organization. White Paper: Strong Authentication: The Scoop on Finger Biometrics

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