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Fingerprint Logon - It really won't work

MawfTech

Did anyone else out there realise that it's ONLY Lenovo laptops that are supported with fingerprint logon? I've been using the Utimaco products for years on many platforms and it's not until we were forced into switching from SG Easy to SGN that we ever had any issues with FPL. It turns out that only a very restricted list of readers are supported and all of those are ONLY on Lenovo's. See: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/108789.html

What a HUGE oversite! Do they really think there's only one laptop manufacturer with biometrics.

Matt

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    That's a great post but just to reitterate my original post, this is only Lenovo - a huge oversite if you ask me to dismiss manufacturers like Dell, HP or Sony. A lot of these manufacturers also use the same upek chips and drivers (with POA, I believe that the windows driver version is irrelevant anyway) .

    The most frustrating part of all his is how I explain this to my users. E.g. I have a Sony Vaoi VGN-SZ1XP with a touchchip (UPEK 1.9.2.71 driver) running SGE 4.50. I don't use POA (actually I think the arguments for POA are mostly humbug!) and fingerprint logon works 'sweet as'. I'm able to login with fingerprint and use the fully encrypted system without so much as a Ctrl-Alt-Del on the keyboard. Migrating users from older platforms to nice shiney new laptops (even Lonovo's) and moving from XP to 7, I have to explain to them that they no longer can logon with a fingerprint. Is that a step forward? I don't think so! More frustrating is that they can see the finger print logon available now but that won't logon to SGN and makes them authenticate to SGN immediately after. It's all very well adding management functions and reportability but don't sacrifce basic functionality and decent biomtric security.

    Matt

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    That's a great post but just to reitterate my original post, this is only Lenovo - a huge oversite if you ask me to dismiss manufacturers like Dell, HP or Sony. A lot of these manufacturers also use the same upek chips and drivers (with POA, I believe that the windows driver version is irrelevant anyway) .

    The most frustrating part of all his is how I explain this to my users. E.g. I have a Sony Vaoi VGN-SZ1XP with a touchchip (UPEK 1.9.2.71 driver) running SGE 4.50. I don't use POA (actually I think the arguments for POA are mostly humbug!) and fingerprint logon works 'sweet as'. I'm able to login with fingerprint and use the fully encrypted system without so much as a Ctrl-Alt-Del on the keyboard. Migrating users from older platforms to nice shiney new laptops (even Lonovo's) and moving from XP to 7, I have to explain to them that they no longer can logon with a fingerprint. Is that a step forward? I don't think so! More frustrating is that they can see the finger print logon available now but that won't logon to SGN and makes them authenticate to SGN immediately after. It's all very well adding management functions and reportability but don't sacrifce basic functionality and decent biomtric security.

    Matt

    :3862
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