Secure environment development firm Trustonic has entered into a strategic agreement with Norwegian fingerprint sensor manufacturer IDEX aimed at the mobile security market.The companies say the partnership will enable an integration between Trustonic's Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for smart devices and IDEX's fingerprint sensors and driver software.”As Trustonic's TEE technology is embedded in over 300m smart connected devices, the joint effort will provide hardware enabled biometric authentication experience with the advantage of reduced integration time for OEMs to launch their smart phones and tablet devices”, said the companies in a statement.”There is a massive demand for secure biometric solutions for the mobile industry. With the Trustonic partnership, IDEX will be able to combine its high quality sensors with hardware enabled device security,” said IDEX CEO, Dr Hemant Mardia.Trustonic CEO, Ben Cade said: “As users and service providers alike start to adopt biometric authentication to access mobile applications and services, the need to ensure secure storage and transactions is clear and present. Trustonic's widely deployed TEE technology, coupled with IDEX's industry leading fingerprint sensors, will provide a highly trusted security solution on mobile devices for biometric authentication.”Last week, IDEX acquired an algorithm from Metadyne Software that it says delivers twice the performance of any other algorithm that the company has tested.

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