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BIO-key's PortalGuard Identity and Access Control Platform Adds New Mexico's Rio Arriba County to Growing List of County Government Customers Throughout the US
BIO-key's PIV-Pro fingerprint readers selected for office users and WEB-key's MobileAuth with PalmPositive Application for remote users WALL, N.J.,
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[{"type":"text","content":"BIO-key's PIV-Pro fingerprint readers selected for office users and WEB-key's MobileAuth with PalmPositive Application for remote users\nWALL, N.J., Feb. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BIO-key International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKYI), an innovative provider of workforce and customer identity and access management (IAM) solutions featuring Identity-Bound Biometrics (IBB), today announced in partnership with iT1 that Rio Arriba County, NM has selected its PortalGuard IAM platform, including WEB-key biometric authentication, to deliver cost-effective, modern security controls for access to all its enterprise resources and mission-critical applications. The County also chose BIO-key's PIV-Pro fingerprint readers, a highly accurate FIPS 201 compliant scanner for its office users, and remote users will use WEB-key's MobileAuth application with PalmPositive for biometric palm authentication. PortalGuard provides the County with a secure IAM approach to support its hybrid workforce and a large variety of user access scenarios. Rio Arriba County selected PortalGuard to provide strong multi-factor authentication (MFA) access control and support compliance with cybersecurity insurance requirements. PortalGuard was selected over competitive solutions because of its flexible MFA capabilities and tight integration with highly secure Identity-Bound Biometrics. The County's IT team chose to incorporate WEB-key's multiple biometric authentication options to prove each user's true identity instead of merely validating their hardware device, as this delivers much stronger protection against cyber security threats while also providing a quick and user-friendly means to access county systems. “iT1 partnered with BIO-key to address our customers' need for a flexible, cost-effective, and proven identity and access management solution,\" said Zim Jackson, Partner Program Manager, iT1. \"Additionally, it was important for us to partner with a group that could extend the quality of customer support our customers expect. Being selected by the Rio Arriba County government to provide a trusted IAM platform demonstrates the strength of our combined capabilities.\" \"Our partnership with iT1 provides valuable IAM solutions to County governments that are dealing with a cascade of ransomware attacks targeting the public sector at the same time they are strugg...