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DigitalPersona Case Studies

Choose from any of the case studies below to discover how DigitalPersona products benefit our customers.


California Commerce Bank

Overview: California Commerce Bank (CCB) provides full banking services for organizations and individuals that do business in Mexico and the United States. As part of Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival, CCB is the U.S. banking arm of Banco Nacional de Mexico (Banamex), Mexico's largest bank. As such, CCB is the gateway to and from Mexican financial markets.

Needs: Secure customer records and improve customer service. Provide authorized bank employees faster and more secure access to multiple databases.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Pro Workstation Package and DigitalPersona Pro Server Software

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Centre Hospitalier Laurentien

Overview: Centre Hospitalier Laurentien needed to improve the security around their patient records and hospital data without compromising hospital staff's ability to access that data whenever they needed it.

Needs: Provide fast, easy access to patient medical records by authorized doctors and nurses.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Pro Workstation Package and DigitalPersona Pro Server Software

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City of Glendale Case Study

Overview: Of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County, Glendale has the third largest population with over 210,000 people. The city is taking a lead in serving the public with superior records security.

Needs: Secure access to the desktop PCs and network. Eliminate user dependency on passwords. Cut support costs associated with passwords.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Pro Workstation Package and DigitalPersona Pro Server Software

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Exeter Police Station Case Study

Overview: Exeter Police Station needed to provide laptops in squad cars so that officers could have fast convenient and secure access to law enforcement data. Exeter wanted a biometric solution to secure these laptops. They looked into iris scanning, but found it was too easy to compromise. They turned to DigitalPersona Pro and fingerprint authentication to address their needs.

Needs: Law enforcement faced the challenge of advancing its IT infrastructure to secure police information and give officers working on remote systems in the field and those in the station instant access when they needed it.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Pro Workstation Package and DigitalPersona Pro Server Software

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Grupo Elektra: Banco Azteca Case Study

Overview: Banco Azteca, a subsidiary of Grupo Elektra, Latin America's leading specialty retailer, consumer finance and banking services company, needed a better method to help customers protect their savings and credit accounts from fraudulent use. Over 4.5 million Grupo Elektra customers currently use DigitalPersona technology to access their bank accounts.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Platinum SDK, DigitalPersona Platinum Integrator Package

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Pay By Touch Case Study

Overview: Pay By Touch™ provides an independent authentication service which supplements a merchant's existing payment processing infrastructure. Using a consumer's unique biometric "signature," namely their fingerprint, Pay By Touch can authenticate both the identity of the consumers as well as the validity of the payment method.

Needs: Provide important benefits to merchants by virtually eliminating fraud, improving customer loyalty and service, and reducing overall payment processing costs.

DigitalPersona Products: U.are.U Fingerprint Module

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Shangahi Traffic Ministry Case Study

Overview: Shanghai Traffic Ministry has over 100 driving schools with more than 100,000 students each year. The Traffic Ministry wants to eliminate someone fraudulently receiving a driver's license by requiring fingerprint authentication for each student.

Needs: Verify students at driving school. Eliminate fraud.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Gold SDK and DigitalPersona Gold Integrator Package

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Smarte Carte Case Study

Overview: To comply with FAA and TSA requirements for a "single-user" system, Smarte Carte needed to provide a mechanism for its storage units that ensured the person accessing the unit was the person renting it. Using DigitalPersona's Platinum SDK, Smarte Carte was able to create such a mechanism and, as a result, restored storage unit service in airports, which accounts for $4 million in annual revenue.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Platinum SDK

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Telmex Case Study

Overview: Telmex is the leading telecommunications company in Mexico providing local, long distance, wireless, data transmission, video transmission and Internet services to corporate and private customers throughout the country. With technology investments of more than $27 billion, Telmex prides itself on a history of successful technology innovation. Supporting over 10,000 users, the Telmex IT infrastructure is complex and diverse.

Needs: Secure access for approved users to all systems and applications, increase auditability of user access to all information systems, eliminate token costs

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Pro Workstation, DigitalPersona Pro for Active Directory Server Software

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The Bankers Bank

Overview: The Bankers Bank was relying on a password system to authorize staff for receiving and transferring funds within their system. Staff replaced the cumbersome process of daily password changes by implementing DigitalPersona Pro. Thereafter, security was improved and IT costs went down. Initially, DigitalPersona Pro was deployed in 140 of the 280 banks in Oklahoma.

Needs: To further secure monetary transactions from one bank to another within their banking system.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Pro Workstation Package and DigitalPersona Pro Server Software

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United Bankers' Bank Case Study

Overview: United Bankers' Bank (UBB) is one of the largest correspondent banks in the Federal Reserve's 9th District, encompassing more than 1,200 community banks. UBB chose DigitalPersona's fingerprint solution to eliminate the hassles and security vulnerabilities associated with employee and customer-driven password management.

Needs: Secure desktops by eliminating password sharing. Authenticate transactions and account access performed by bank-clients over the Internet. Produce biometric audit trails.

DigitalPersona Products: DigitalPersona Pro for Active Directory, DigitalPersona Online

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