Most "secured" applications offer the ability for users to enter a user ID and password when accessing the application. Anything stronger than this requires complex coding, tie in with certain specific bits of hardware, an understanding of security interfaces and overall a skill set that most application programmers do not need to have.
By developing and supplying authentication and identification libraries that interface with different devices, PRI offers the ability to application developers to very quickly add stronger authentication features into their business applications, without having to understand the ins and outs of the devices used. Libraries are available for different kinds of security token and biometric readers.
For example:
The
PRI BIOAPI** client server
library provides programmers access to fingerprint identification
and verification functions at a high level, without requiring them to
understand the low level manipulation of fingerprint readers and
fingerprint database management software. The fingerprint
database can be maintained on a single or multiple servers within the
network, the fingerprint hardware itself can be changed and all of this
is completely abstracted from the business application.
The
PRI Driver License Library allows for the reading of different kinds of drivers'
licenses - applications receive the information in the same format,
irrespective of the format of the license, thus making it simpler for
the application programmer.
** currently the PRI BIOAPI library uses the Identix DFR 90 reader and the Identix BioEngine SDK.
