VASCO Adds Ultra-light Digipass 805 One-Button Reader to its Client Authentication Suite Combines High Portability with the Entire Range of Digipass Functionalities; Multi-Function Button Permits Generation of e-Signatures
Released on = May 22, 2007, 2:20 am
Press Release Author = VASCO Data Security
Industry = Computers
Press Release Summary = OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill., and ZURICH, Switzerland, May 22, 2007 - VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (Nasdaq: VDSI) (www.vasco.com), the leading software security company specializing in authentication products, today announced that it has developed Digipass 805, an ultra-light one-button smart card reader. The launch of the product fits perfectly into VASCO's Full Option, All-Terrain product strategy.
Press Release Body = Digipass 805 boasts the entire range of functionalities that are also offered by its pin-pad enabled brethren such as Digipass 800 and Digipass 810. Thanks to the multifunctional button, the device is e-signature enabled, in addition to the one-time password and host authentication functionalities.
With Digipass 805, VASCO aims at the segment of junior bank account holders and the potentially important b-to-c e-commerce market. VASCO believes that Digipass 805 will prove to be a huge success. The company already received firm orders for the product.
"It is one of VASCO's objectives to offer a broad range of Digipass client authentication software to our customers based on the VACMAN core authentication platform," said Jan Valcke, VASCO's President and COO. "We see that a growing number of financial institutions and e-commerce companies want to protect different segments of their customer base with different client authentication devices. The launch of Digipass 805 fits perfectly into our Full Option, All-Terrain strategy."
Download product pictures of Digipass 805 at www.vasco.com/digipass-805
About VASCO: VASCO is the number one supplier of strong authentication and e-signature solutions and services. VASCO has established itself as the world's leading software company specialized in Internet Security, with a customer base of over 4,800 companies in more than 100 countries, including close to 750 international financial institutions. VASCO's prime markets are the financial sector, enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government.
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