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Fingerprint Reader
Security at your fingertips
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FingerPrint Reader Overview
In an environment full of complexity and increasing security risks, customers are looking for easy and secure ways to log on to personal computers and networks. We delivered with an Integrated Fingerprint Reader, available on select ThinkPad® notebooks. To serve ThinkCentre™ desktop and ThinkPad users without the integrated fingerprint reader, IBM also offers the optionally available Preferred Pro USB Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader and the USB Fingerprint Reader. With a simple finger swipe, a user can access their system and the sensitive data stored within.
How can our Integrated Fingerprint Readers work for you?
- Reduces Complexity: Unlike the dozens of passwords required to access computers, web sites and corporate applications, a fingerprint cannot be forgotten, misplaced or shared.
- Enhanced Security: Personal computers today often store sensitive and confidential data. They are also the access point to corporate networks. As systems become smaller and more mobile, they are more at risk of being lost or stolen. Use of the IFR in combination with a password offers a much higher level of authentication security for access to data or networks than can be achieved with a single form of authentication.
What can our Integrated Fingerprint Readers do for you?
In response to these customer pain points, we offer convenience and security:
- Replace Microsoft® Windows® and BIOS passwords with your fingerprint for easy, fast and secure system access. Also swipe your finger from hibernate and standby modes to log on to your PC. BIOS password (also known as power-on password) replacement is currently available on select ThinkPad notebook systems.
- Use your fingerprint to access Web sites and applications using IBM Password Manager, a feature of Client Security Solution, available on select ThinkPad and ThinkCentre systems. Password Manager lets you store multiple Web and application passwords in a hardware-secured location, and access these passwords through a single passphrase or by swiping your finger.
- Perform wireless authentication with the swipe of your finger when logging on to windows and using Access Connections, available on ThinkPad notebooks.
- Enable secure two-factor authentication (password plus your fingerprint) to access Windows, Web sites and select applications. Client Security Software makes this possible.
- Use your fingerprint to access encrypted data. Data encryption can be performed with File and Folder Encryption Software.
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June 2005
"Hard-nosed IT shops will undoubtedly prefer the ThinkPad [X41] with its wealth of management and security features. For instance, it comes with biometric security, in which you can set the device to require a fingerprint swipe using the included fingerprint reader before either booting or logging on to Windows. The fingerprint capability can even work in lieu of application and Web site passwords."
—Mobile Pipeline:
"ThinkPad X41; Battle of the Tiny Laptop Giants"
By David Haskin
January 2005
ThinkCentre A51p
"Strong design and security stand out in this attractive business machine."
— PC World |
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