2007.10.01
NTT Comware launches sales of ThinkPad e-UBF Smart Model through Marubeni Infotec
-- e-UBF for the standard edition of ThinkPad notebooks with fingerprint reader --
NTT Comware (Head office; Minato-ku, Tokyo: President; Yuhji Imai, below, NTT Comware) will launch sales of ThinkPad e-UBF Smart Model though Marubeni Infotec Corp. (Head office; Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo: President; Sadao Amano, below, Marubeni Infotec) on October 1, 2007. This model offers the e-UBF fingerprint verification feature integrated into ThinkPad notebooks with a fingerprint reader of Lenovo Japan Ltd. (Head office; Minato-ku, Tokyo: President; Sotaro Amano, below, Lenovo).
Background
The Japanese SOX Act, the New Corporate Law, raises hopes of business entities for a solution of security and corporate governance due to occurrences of a number of corporate scandals of information leakage of confidential data including customer information in recent years. Many companies were studying whether they should use a biometrics authentication method to enable a secure login to PCs or uniform management of their access logs.NTT Comware considered to integrate e-UBF, which has No. 1 market share of the fingerprint solution (*), into the latest models of Lenovo ThinkPad as a standard feature and entrust Marubeni Infotec with sales as they have a past sales record of sales of ThinkPad.
(*See "Network Security Business 2006– Comprehensive Research Report" by Fuji Chimera Research Institute, Inc.)
Outline
ThinkPad e-UBF Smart Model is a Marubeni Infotec original product applying e-UBF based on the frequency analysis-based authentication algorithm to ThinkPad notebooks with fingerprint reader available in the market.The new model with e-UBF ID Manager enables fingerprint authentication for user logins to applications. The client-server upgrade version (option) offers users a convenient solution including a uniform management of fingerprint information and user access logs.
Future Scenario
NTT Comware and Marubeni Infotec promote the sales of ThinkPad e-UBF Smart Model for companies in need of corporate governance solutions as well as for companies in consideration to enhance IT securities for PCs with biometrics solutions.Price
+ ThinkPad e-UBF Smart Model220,500yen (basic, including tax)
(* For ThinkPad X61, 76733NJ)
+ Upgrade Software
Open price
* Client-Server Upgrade Version is a product of Marubeni Infotec.
* For users of e-UBF Server
New license is required on upgrade. Free upgrade for maintenance customers (by the end of 2007).
Terminology
*1 Frequency analysis-based authentication algorithmFrequency analysis-based authentication algorithm is a verification method by measuring the maximum correlation of wave spectrum series according to a section of fingerprint pattern as considered to be a wave.
(Frequency analysis-based authentication algorithm was developed by Professor Taizo Umezaki of Nagoya Institute of Technology Graduate School and DDS Inc. (Head office: Aichi Prefecture) as a joint venture.)
* ThinkPad is the registered trademark of Lenovo Japan Ltd.
* UBF is the registered trademark of DDS Inc.
* Other names of corporations and products are either trademarks or registered trademarks of each corporation.
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