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Article: Linking Password Generators to Storage Devices.(data security software)
- Article from:
- American Banker
- Article date:
- December 12, 2006
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Few financial companies are offering their customers password-generating tokens, but two computer memory companies are offering consumers devices with authentication capabilities.
SanDisk Corp., a Milpitas, Calif., memory chip company, has incorporated password-generating software from VeriSign Inc. and EMC Corp.'s RSA Security Inc. into its portable devices. And Guard ID Systems Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., is working with the credit bureau Equifax Inc. to distribute password-storage devices and expects to have 75,000 of them in consumers' hands by yearend.
Neither SanDisk nor Guard ID is working with banking companies to promote their products.
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