Mustek affiliate company PreWorX, formerly Diamond Networking Technology, has secured the rights to distribute the Ankari range of authentication products in SA.
PreWorX will take these products to market through the channel, and is looking to appoint appropriate systems integrators and partners.
Ankari has its roots in the development and supply of biometric equipment for the US government and CIA. With the ending of the Cold War and subsequent reduced demand from government, it refocused its operations into the commercial market, where it is now a world leader.
Until February it was known as American Biometric Company, but it changed its identity to reflect its new role as a supplier of complete hardware and software authentication products. It is a subsidiary of DEW Engineering and Development, which develops and manufactures equipment for the military and aerospace industries.
"The Ankari products fit neatly into our business model," says Rhys Taylor, sales and marketing director of PreWorX. "We have been almost solely focused on the development of software solutions for the pre-boot, or operating system-absent sector of the IT market, and integrating third-party products with ours is a clear part of our strategy. Access control, authentication and security, as provided by Ankari, are in line with this overall vision." Ankari`s products include:
* Trinity, enterprise-ready, single sign-on and authentication software.
* BioMouse, a desktop fingerprint scanner.
* BioMouse Plus, an advanced fingerprint scanner with integrated smart card reader.
* Card Drive, a high-performance desktop smart card reader.
"Even the casual observer of the market will have noted the chaos that reigns around the topic of information security," says Taylor. "These products go a long way to addressing such key issues as password proliferation, the rising cost of network administration, lost productivity, internal user verification, security technology integration and future protection."
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