Press Release
biometric fraud mitigation solution for use
with SAP® applications now compatible with most biometric
devices
realtime joins with Bromba GmbH and UPEK,
Inc. to make its award winning biometric identity management solution compatible
with most leading fingerprint readers and laptops
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, October 3
- realtime North America, Inc. (http://www.realtimenorthamerica.com)
announced today that its award-winning bioLock software is now compatible
with most biometric devices and laptops with built-in fingerprint
readers. By leveraging the latest BioIDENTICA® SDK from Bromba GmbH
and fingerprint readers embedded in millions of laptops from UPEK, realtime’s
bioLock is now compatible with over 100 different models of laptops and
over 50 standalone USB fingerprint devices such as the UPEK Eikon fingerprint
reader. Today’s announcement was made at TechEd ’07 Las Vegas, SAP’s largest
technical education conference.
Thomas Neudenberger, COO of realtime North
America Inc. is excited about this latest integration and states, “bioLock
is powered by the SAP NetWeaver® platform and exclusively available
for use with SAP® applications. Many users of SAP solutions already
work on laptops with a built-in fingerprint reader. Now they can not only
protect the logon to their computers, but they can physically protect every
mouse click in the system.”
bioLock can restrict the logon to SAP applications
(security level I), every transaction (level II), and any fields or info
types (level III). Independent from the user of an SAP solution,
bioLock will uniquely identify the “actual user” and log his or her activities
into the standard log file. With this leading identity management tool
for SAP solutions, one now has proof who did what and when within the system.
Persons in critical departments such as finance, HR, IT, production, management,
and other selected employees handling sensitive data are equipped with
bioLock to protect the company from fraud and help them to comply with
mandatory regulations. bioLock will guarantee more accurate audits
and will help to comply with critical regulatory mandates such as the California
Act, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires
certifying that companies have established and maintained internal controls
and will assess and audit their systems’ effectiveness annually.
The latest version of bioLock now has an
“invitation only” function. For the first time it is easy and straight
forward for the business team to log their most critical transactions and
know for sure who will have access - once a function is protected with
biometrics a special global check mark is set to require every user to
provide a biometric ID. An “invitation only” table defines which person
is invited to use which function. All other users, including administrators
with all access rights, are automatically excluded.
“We are excited that realtime is taking
advantage of the millions of laptops in the marketplace with UPEK fingerprint
readers to provide added value to users of SAP applications,” stated Todd
Berg, UPEK’s Partner Program Manager. “realtime continues to drive adoption
of biometric technology by solving real-world needs such as regulatory
compliance and fraud mitigation.”
California State University, Fullerton
researchers are working on extensive research studies expecting to show
that even though a company might be compliant with a mandatory regulation,
such as the Sarbanes Oxley Act, a company is still exposed to risks of
fraud and major damages. Paul Sheldon Foote, a Harvard-educated professor
states, “Laws and regulations constitute minimal standards. Corporate
management needs to do more than satisfy minimal laws and regulations to
protect corporate assets and investors. Shareholders will sue any
corporation causing shareholder losses because of weak internal control
systems. Corporate information systems using only passwords are unacceptable.
Corporate management needs to use the best available biometric system enhancements.”
About realtime
realtime was etablished in Europe by former
senior SAP employees in 1986 with an emphasis on innovative, inexpensive,
and convenient solutions for access control, authorization profile management,
expert consulting, and advanced security to include biometrics. realtime
has a client base of over 200 "Fortune Global 500" customers in Europe
and in North America, including the U.S. Army, Bayer, DaimlerChrysler,
Siemens, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, DuPont, Marathon Oil, Nestlé,
and others.
Brevard County Government won the prestigious
InfoWorld 100 Award in 2003 using bioLock to comply with HIPAA. realtime
also supports clients with both consulting services and software solutions.
In addition to bioLock, realtime has over 150 clients using its other popular
software solutions such as APM, a complete risk and role management system
for use with SAP solutions. realtime AG is an SAP software solution partner
and SAP services partner with solutions that have achieved certified integration
with SAP solutions. realtime is also a member of SAP’s industry value network
for public sector.
For more information about realtime, bioLock,
and other solutions designed for use with SAP solutions, see www.realtimenorthamerica.com
and www.biolock.us and www.sapaudit.us
About UPEK Inc.
UPEK, Inc., a global leader in biometric fingerprint
security solutions, offers integrated end-to-end solutions including comprehensive
design & integration services to the world’s leading consumer and industrial
products companies. UPEK solutions enable the strongest fingerprint authentication
security available, packaged for high user convenience and rapid integration
into existing products and network architectures. The company has been
pioneering biometric fingerprint technology since 1996 and shipping product
in volume since 1999. UPEK is headquartered in Emeryville, California,
with offices in Prague, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo. For more information,
please visit www.upek.com .
About Bromba GmbH
The company is specialized in biometrics and
offers consulting services as well as software/hardware components for
industrial customers and governmental institutions. The employees of Bromba
GmbH mostly come from the business unit Biometrics of Siemens AG and have
more than 8 years of experience in the areas of general biometrics, the
development of fingerprint sensors, fingerprint-sensor devices, fingerprint
algorithms, biometric application software, as well as the evaluation of
biometric components and complete systems.
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