Ensure Technologies Expands Two Factor Authentication, Improving Network Security

Ensure Technologies adds DigitalPersona as a strategic partner, strengthening authentication and meeting customer demands

March 18, 2008

Ypsilanti, MI — Ensure Technologies, pioneer of the XyLocTM family of network security products, announced XyLoc’s added capability to support products from DigitalPersona, the leading provider of fingerprint authentication solutions for enterprise networks and commercial applications. DigitalPersona’s software and hardware link actual people, such as physicians and nurses, to individual actions, complementing XyLoc’s active proximity solution.

Based on customer requirements, Ensure Technologies has combined XyLoc with DigitalPersona® Pro software and the U.are.U® 4000B Fingerprint Readers, eliminating the need for typing passwords and using tokens. This two-factor authentication improves network security, assists with regulatory compliance and provides quick access and "walk-away security" to shared workstations in physician exam rooms and hospital nursing stations. DigitalPersona’s software is fast and instinctively easy to use, and provides centralized control and administration via Microsoft® Active Directory. Its optical fingerprint scanning hardware requires no special training and provides superior durability and reliability.

“The combined Ensure and DigitalPersona solution allows organizations to know - for sure - who actually accesses what, when and where,” said Jim Fulton, vice president of marketing at DigitalPersona. “This is especially important in healthcare where HIPAA regulations mandate access control policies to patient records.”

XyLoc is a patented RF technology based PC security solution that is unique in allowing the PC to recognize an authorized user when they approach a computer, and automatically securing the PC when they walk away. XyLoc is ideal for organizations where confidential information and mission critical applications should only be available to authorized users, and where computers are shared across multiple users throughout the enterprise.

About Ensure Technologies

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Ypsilanti, Mich., Ensure Technologies is an innovative developer of intelligent security solutions designed to provide maximum security with minimal impact on users. Ensure's award-winning XyLoc family of products provides robust security for networks, as well as the personalization and convenience users appreciate, at leading organizations in healthcare, financial services, government, manufacturing, and law throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.ensuretech.com.

About DigitalPersona

DigitalPersona is the leading provider of fingerprint authentication solutions for enterprise networks, developers and consumer OEMs. Founded in 1996, the company designs, manufactures and sells flexible solutions that make it possible for businesses to implement strong security policies in ways that users happily embrace. Business users and consumers alike enjoy DigitalPersona’s software because it eliminates the pain of remembering and typing passwords or dealing with tokens – making the Internet, applications and computers more convenient. IT organizations appreciate how DigitalPersona’s centralized control, per-user uniqueness and rapid user acceptance simplifies data-loss prevention and compliance efforts with strong passwords, multi-factor authentication and transaction accountability. DigitalPersona’s award-winning technology is used worldwide by over 90 million people in the most diverse and challenging environments. The company’s interoperable biometric software solutions uniquely support the industry's widest array of notebooks with fingerprint readers in addition to its own line of optical placement reader peripherals. For more information contact DigitalPersona, Inc. at +1 650.474.4000, or visit www.digitalpersona.com.