BioLink announces the launch of BioLink IDenium 3.0 for Active Directory (AD) designed to biometrically identify users accessing corporate resources. Supplemented with a scalable and easy to operate IDenium Server, BioLink IDenium now identifies Windows Vista users.

BioLink IDenium users can be identified by fingerprints, passwords or both (if higher security required). Selection of the required identification policy is available via BioLink’s tab of a standard Microsoft AD ‘Users and Computers’ console. Fingerprints can be enrolled by users themselves or the administrator.

BioLink IDenium stores only digitized fingerprint templates, which in the course of identification are compared with newly captured fingerprints. Any user can enroll fingerprints of up to 10 fingers.

Biometric matching is the responsibility of the software IDenium Server, which is installed quite easily through automated registration in an AD catalogue. To balance peak-period loads (such as the start of business when network resources are simultaneously accessed by most users), several biometric servers can be installed in a corporate network. Operating several servers also ensures fault tolerance of the entire biometric system: if any of such servers temporary becomes unavailable, its identification functions will be taken over by another server.

To capture fingerprints, users’ workstations can be equipped with a BioLink U-Match fingerprint scanner (standalone or embedded) or a third party device such as UPEK (standalone or integrated into laptops and other mobile devices).

“Identity and access management is considered the most crucial of all information security targets,” says Piotr Pertsov, BioLink’s Head of Business Development. “BioLink IDenium is able to effectively meet this target through the use of biometrics, high performance and ease of deployment".

About BioLink

BioLink, a leading provider of biometric identification solutions, develops, manufactures, and markets advanced fingerprint biometric products. The Company’s products and services form the core of biometric identification and authentication solutions for all scales of civil identification, access control and information security applications. BioLink’s solutions ensure optimal total cost of ownership in the industry and are implemented by corporate and government entities worldwide. For additional information, please visit BioLink’s web site at http://www.biolinksolutions.com.