DigitalPersona Pro Wins Network Products Guide Reader Trust Award for Best in Biometrics

DigitalPersona Pro Selected as a 2008 Best Products and Services Winner In Biometrics

August 5, 2008

REDWOOD CITY, CA — DigitalPersona, Inc. announced today that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication, has named DigitalPersona Pro a winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech-industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world.

DigitalPersona Pro is a centrally-managed fingerprint identity solution that lets businesses implement strong security and compliance policies in ways that users rapidly embrace. With DigitalPersona Pro software, IT can easily mandate strong password policies, roll out two-factor authentication, and tie specific transactions to the actual people who performed them. This gives organizations the certainty of knowing, for sure, who is doing what, where, and when. As a result, DigitalPersona Pro aligns users’ natural behavior with business’ security needs to:

• Have the certainty that is needed for loss prevention & compliance efforts
• Make strong security simple to deploy and instinctively easy to use
• Manage fingerprints using existing infrastructure such as Active Directory
• Eliminate the risk and cost of lost, stolen, shared or forgotten passwords

“Increased end-user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services.” says Rake Narang, editor-n-chief, Network Products Guide. “DigitalPersona Pro delivers a centrally-managed software solution that enables businesses to increase data security, bring accountability and irrefutability to individual transactions, assist with compliance regulations and lower operating expenses.”

“These awards go to the best technology products every year and we are honored that DigitalPersona Pro, our fingerprint identity solution for enterprises, has won the Network Products Guide Reader Trust Award,” said Jim Fulton, VP of Marketing at DigitalPersona. “This is a testament to the growing importance of certainty, simplicity and manageability in addressing today’s security and compliance challenges.”

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About DigitalPersona

DigitalPersona, Inc. is the leading provider of fingerprint identity solutions for enterprises, custom application developers and consumers. Since 1997, the company has offered software and hardware that puts security and convenience at people’s fingertips. For end users, DigitalPersona takes the pain out of remembering and typing passwords; the company’s business solutions help organizations address growing security, compliance and loss prevention demands. DigitalPersona’s award-winning technology has been used worldwide by over 90 million people, and its biometric software solutions uniquely support the industry's widest array of notebooks in addition to its own line of fingerprint readers. DigitalPersona’s solutions are offered by market-leading manufacturers such as HP, Dell, and Microsoft. For more information contact DigitalPersona, Inc. at +1 650.474.4000, or visit www.digitalpersona.com.