IdentAlink announces agreement with Elform Inc., Nevada, USA

Berlin, Germany -IdentAlink Limited, the supplier of leading edge biometric security software solutions and platform independent, multilayered Client/Server applications for IT Security, Physical Access Control and Time & Attendance systems, announced that Elform Inc., Reno Nevada, USA will act as a Value Added Reseller for IdentAlink's BioPassportT Enterprise Server product portfolio in North America.

The BioPassportT Enterprise Server is built with the objective of substantially reducing IT administration and security cost of ownership by replacing passwords, resulting in rapid return on investment. The BioPassportT product family provides superior biometric verification for Network, Intranet and Internet security as well as Physical Access Control and Time & Attendance Systems. Being entirely hardware and OS independent, BioPassportT Enterprise Server provides the highest security levels by federating existing security solutions. At the same time it ensures that users benefit from Single Sign-on, and a reduced administration with centralized, LDAP compliant user management. Using fingerprint and face recognition as standard technologies, it complies with the biometric industry's BioAPI standard. It has the added advantage of combining local and server-side verification, is fully scalable, and can be used for an unlimited number of domains and users. Combinations of smartcard/biometrics, Proxycards/biometrics, 2D barcode/biometrics and password/biometrics are built-in as standard. IdentAlink provides the only known IT security solution that integrates Public Key Infrastructure with multi-layered Biometrics, ensuring seamless transmission of digitally signed and encrypted communication.

The BioPassportT Enterprise AD Server allows the administration of other parts of the BioPassportT family: BioPassportT BioLogin for workstations, BioPassportT Secure Communication, BioPassportT Secure Applications, BioPassportT Time & Attendance, BioPassportT Physical Access Control and BioPassportT Online Payments.

"The agreement with Elform represents an important milestone for the successful approach of the North American market" explained Michael Kraushaar, Managing Director of IdentAlink GmbH. "Elform are well placed to market our products successfully as they already have a portfolio of security products which are complimented by IdentAlink".

About IdentAlink Limited

IdentAlink is one of the leading biometrics technology companies. Founded in 1998 in the UK, the company initially provided solutions to the UK healthcare industry for staff security and drug control problems and moved its main operating office to Berlin / Germany in 2000. Using facial and fingerprint recognition technology, IdentAlink Limited and its German subsidiary IdentAlink GmbH now offers secure and reliable identity verification globally for a variety of applications. The company's proprietary technologies are used in conjunction with next generation high capacity barcodes, smart cards or Proxycards for operation in secure access or monitoring situations. Network related Software development for Standalone and Client-Server applications for WIN and LINUX platforms is another part of IdentAlink's product portfolio. Using C/C++, Java, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder IdentAlink provides customized solutions based on technologies such as J2EE, XML, JNI, CORBA, ActiveX, COM/DCOM, MTS, RDBMS (Sybase, Oracle), Cryptography (WIN CSP, Open SSL), Application servers (Sybase EAServer, Jboss). For more information please visit http://www.identalink.de

About Elform Inc.

Elform is a technical sales distributor that incorporated in 1982. In 2002 Elform's reputation for prompt personal service and first-rate technical support earned us the privilege of handling BMF Pressure Sensitive Fingerprint Sensors.

Elform has assembled a group of biometric hardware and software manufacturers to offer products that can secure physical and virtual assets on a network, or operate standalone. Being able to operate in a network environment is very important, for if an enterprise has users across a wide area, IdentAlink BioPassportT Enterprise Server Software and BMF Pressure Sensitive Fingerprint Sensor make it easy to control access to physical or virtual assets from a central location. It is no longer necessary to enroll a user at each computer or access point, or delete that user at each location. For more information please visit http://www.elform.com

Network Biometric Security is a powerful tool. For example IT administrators could be granted access to all the computers and applications on the network, while a consultant would only be allowed into a limited number of systems or applications. Secure information can be posted on websites for selected users. The time consuming task of changing passwords is eliminated.

For further information on BioPassportT, or to find out about becoming an IdentAlink VAR, contact Michael Kraushaar: mkraushaar@biometrics.ws or telephone +49 30 6392 6970