If we have to name one company that is making genuine efforts to make security convenient, easy and affordable to use, then it would be Digital Persona, Inc., a Redwood City, California based company. Digital Persona developed state-of-the-art fingerprint recognition technology that is highly affordable and simple to use.
The Beginning
Incorporated in 1996 and had first info security product delivered in 1998. Digital Persona, Inc. is a privately held company. In September 2004, Microsoft shipped its first hardware products containing Digital Persona fingerprint recognition technology.
The Success Team
Fabio Righi , President and CEO
Vance Bjorn , Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Patrizia Owen , Chief Financial Officer
Michael Printz , Vice President of WW Sales
George Skaff, Vice President of Marketing
Kenneth Brownlee , Vice President, Operations & Hardware Engineering
Enrica D'Ettorre , Vice President of Software Engineering and Research
Pierluigi Zappacosta, Chairman
Info Security Products Portfolio
DigitalPersona® Pro Workstation for Active Directory
DigitalPersona Pro Kiosk for Active Directory
DigitalPersona Pro Server for Active Directory
DigitalPersona Pro SDK
DigitalPersona Platinum SDK
DigitalPersona Platinum Integrator
DigitalPersona Gold SDK
DigitalPersona Gold Integrator
DigitalPersona Online
"Digital Persona is a winner when it comes to implementing and managing security. The company has developed state-of-the-art products with the highest accuracy in fingerprint recognition technology. With security breaches on the rise we believe that acceptance for Digital Person's solution will be even much more widely accepted by everyone seriously concerned about security."
Rick Justice, Chief Editor
What makesDigitalPerson a "Hot Company" 2006
Products & Technologies
Digital Persona is the only solution provider to deliver an enterprise based product, DigitalPersona® Pro, in addition to a consumer level product (via it’s relationship with Microsoft).
Digital Persona provides a true turnkey solution designed to leverage the existing IT infrastructure not requiring custom integration to deploy its solution.
Digital Persona's unique algorithm has the ability to recognize even poor-quality fingerprints. Millions of people worldwide are registered with Digital Persona's technology as they lead the market in performance and accuracy within its product line.
Hot In technology
Rotation Invariance: Regardless of the angle in which users place their finger on the Digital Persona sensor, the user's fingerprint can still be recognized;
Optical Approach: Digital Persona uses optical technology, which is conducive to a clear cost reduction, instead of silicon, which is more costly;
No unencrypted data over the network: The Digital Persona sensor creates a challenge/response, encrypted link between the sensor device and a trusted authentication server to protect the integrity of the data. The data cannot be captured and replayed later, as the challenge/response link is time-sensitive.
Digital Persona's authentication solution is a more cost-effective solution than others because it reduces the cost enterprises spend administering lost passwords and losses due to password-related security breaches. Digital Persona's authentication solutions helped the DoD cut password-related help desk calls by 90 percent.
People & Investors
The company is led by Fabio Righi whose academic background includes a Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering with a major in Computer
Science from the University of Rome, Italy.
DigitalPersona if funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Chess Ventures, IDG Ventures and Invesco Private Equity, LODH, Networking S.A and Intel Capital.
Performance & Growth
Digital Persona has completed the successful sale of its U.are.U® Fingerprint Reader hardware applications and OEMed the U.are.U reader and Password Manager software to Microsoft. Over the past year Digital Persona closed major accounts with leading enterprise customers including Sutter Health, Multi-care, NASDAQ, the Department of Defense, the U.S Senate, Rite Aid, Albertsons, Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club, Cadillac Fairview, White Castle Hamburger and London Drugs.
Today the Digital Persona community spans over 25 million users worldwide.
Potential & Strategies
Digital Persona is planning to scale to get more business through its channels, partnerships and strategic alliances.
According to the International Biometrics Group, a research firm, the biometrics market is expected to grow at a 40% CAGR through 2008 from an estimated $1.2 billion in 2004 to $4.6 billion in 2008 (Roseanne Gerin, Touch Subject. August 29, 2005, Washington Technology via IBG Website). As enterprises look to bolster data security and meet regulatory and compliance requirements, authentication solutions will become a requirement as a first line of data-security defense. In the consumer market, Microsoft's consumer authentication products with Digital Persona technology already provide people with a convenient, simple and secure way to authenticate. As more people recognize the products as a simple and secure way to authenticate, consumer usage will expand.
Digital Persona, Inc. 720 Bay Road, Suite 100
Redwood City , CA 94063
Tel: (650) 474-4000
www.digitalpersona.com
