Chicago-based biometric firm BluStor has announced that it plans to begin shipping in May its CyberGate Mobile Enterprise Credentials (MEC) product.BluStor's biometric identification and data storage product includes AutoLogN and Mobile PassWord Vault (PWV), features that enable automatic authentication to a user's devices and websites, subsequently eliminating the need for usernames, passwords or pins.”Companies spend billions of dollars to secure the cloud and the devices, but the weakest link in the whole chain of mobile security turns out to be with the individual,” Finis Conner, BluStor's founder and CEO, says. “The first thing you need to do is secure the employees who generate, share and manage content in order to eliminate phishing schemes, ransomware and insecure email use.””By leveraging biometrics, such as facial recognition – rather than pins or passwords – our Mobile Enterprise Credentials product provides the first level of defense in the mobile world,” Conner says. “This way, users can prove to the authenticating agency that they are who they say they are and that they are authorized to do what they're requesting – but in a way that is almost transparent to them.”Indeed, with 78 million medical records stolen; a 614% growth in mobile malware and email fraud; and a 165% growth in ransomware that is holding enterprises, hospitals and consumers hostage to their own data, BluStor knows that cybercrime and digital identity theft has reached dangerously dire proportions.

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