BioID Provides Authentication to Intel Cloud SSO and McAfee Cloud

With the growing adoption of Software-as-a-Service applications, IT departments are challenged with managing multiple access points and policies while they need to ensure that users are legitimate.

BioID Inc., a provider of multimodal biometric authentication for IT, Web and mobile applications, said its webcam-based biometric recognition will provide user authentication to Intel (News - Alert) Cloud SSO and McAfee Cloud Identity Manager solutions.

The increasing adoption of SaaS applications has put IT departments in a bad position, trying to manage multiple identity stores, access policies, security approaches and audit trails, according to said Ho Chang, CEO of BioID, Inc.

“Intel’s cloud IAM solutions bring much-needed order to this chaos,” Chang said. “With more and more critical applications secured by a single master login, Intel is leading the industry by incorporating biometric cloud technology in the solutions, making their offerings unique and appealing. BioID’s user-friendly webcam-based recognition helps organizations ensure that the legitimate user is present.”

BioID’s technology verifies the user’s presence whenever sensitive applications are launched or before the session is timed out, according to Girish Juneja, director of Intel Application Security (News - Alert) and Identity Products Group. Intel’s Cloud SSO and McAfee’s identity manager also provide a suite of identity and access management tools for provisioning, strong authentication, de-provisioning and audit.

“With BioID’s cloud-based biometric recognition, strong multi-factor authentication can be delivered just by looking at the camera, and without the expense and administrative overhead of additional hardware and software deployment,” Juneja said.

BioID currently supports highly accurate face recognition requiring only a standard webcam or mobile phone camera, with its patent-pending “live detection” that can tell if an attacker is attempting to authenticate using a photo.

Last month, the Carson City, Nev.-based company announced the beta release of its personal recognition service MyBioID. The cloud-based service offers a secure way for users to log into multiple internet accounts, authorize transactions, and manage their growing numbers of digital identities, without remembering dozens of passwords and PINs or carrying security tokens.