Secure Signature Systems Biometric Pen protects against laptop fraud

It is very hard to forge hand-writing. Story Co-Published with BIOS

Secure Signature Systems’ Biometric Pen is a pen-based biometric system designed to provide a secure method of access to a computer through signature recognition and verification.

Replacing the traditional Windows log-on using your handwriting, the system recognises ‘your’ handwriting instead of a password, which could be passed on for anybody to use. The really neat aspect of the pen is that unlike conventional signature systems, the Biometric Pen compares the ‘image’ of a signature, valuating the ‘act’ of creating the signature.

This individual personal behaviour of signing is nearly impossible to forge, according to the company, and the system currently has a false acceptance rate of just 0.01 per cent.

The Biometric Pen simply plugs into the USB port on any Windows-based PC or laptop with the supplied cable and interfaces using proprietary software. At the moment, the pen can only be used to replace Windows log-on, and can’t be used to protect files, data and applications.

via Bios