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[igoe104] 06/2/2008 09:03

Hirsch's Verification Station Biometric Technology Approved by TSA

SANTA ANA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Hirsch Electronics, a leading manufacturer of access control and identity management solutions, today confirmed its Verification Station's biometric technology passed the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) rigorous testing and was placed on the TSA's "Biometrics for Access Control" Qualified Products List (QPL).

Biometrics for Airport Access Control" that establishes the criteria and standards that TSA believes biometric products should meet for acceptable performance for airport access control systems.

Hirsch developed the Verification Station, model family RUU, in conjunction with Cogent Systems (Nasdaq:COGT), a global biometric identification solutions provider. Hirsch's RUU integrates Cogent's ID-Gate biometric subsystem, one of only two products that met TSA's testing requirements for airport physical access control. "Hirsch chose to integrate Cogent's technologies, because we knew their quality solutions would support and enhance Hirsch's reputation for high security and product reliability," stated Kevin Reyes, Hirsch's manager of strategic OEM partners.

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The biometrics in the Hirsch Verification Station passed the extensive TSA tests including requirements for a failure-to-enroll rate less than 3 percent and a 99.86 percent operational availability rate. TSA's test required a false rejection rate (FRR) of less than 1 percent; the RUU biometric's FRR is just 0.01% - 0.001%. TSA's test required a false acceptance rate (FAR) of less than 1 percent; the RUU biometric's FAR is only 0.01% - 0.0001% FAR. TSA's test required a transaction time of less than six seconds; the RUU biometric extraction and ID time is only 1.5 seconds.

"We believe the Hirsch Verification Station is an excellent choice for airports, ports and other high-risk sites, uniquely providing the highest standards in identity management and access control," commented Chris Crump, Cogent's director of commercial business.

About the Verification Station model RUU

The Verification Station is the market's only high security, multipurpose biometric edge reader. The RUU delivers uncommon versatility: four authentication factors (card, code, fingerprint and PKI certificate check), four applications (verify claimed identities, control access, encode smart cards, and enroll card holders in access control system), twelve modes (finger-only, card+finger, card+finger+code, etc.), and three power choices (Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), terminal block, wall socket). The RUU is the only biometric product in the world with a scrambling keypad to secure the PIN code entry from theft. The Verification Station is IP addressable and can communicate with identity management systems, card management systems, access control systems, and PKI certificate authorities. The Verification Station is part of Hirsch Electronics' integrated, end-to-end solution for identity management and regulatory compliance and won the Security Industry Association's Special Achievement Award for outstanding technical innovation. For more information, visit

About Cogent Systems

Cogent, South Pasadena, CA, is a global biometric identification solutions provider to governments, law enforcement agencies, and commercial enterprises. Cogent provides the highest quality identification systems, products and services with leading technology, accuracy and speed. Cogent's Automated Fingerprint/Palmprint Identification Systems, or AFIS, enable customers to capture fingerprint and palm print images electronically, encode prints into searchable files, and accurately compare a set of fingerprints/palm prints to a database containing potentially millions of prints in seconds. For more information, visit www.cogentsystems.com.

About Hirsch Electronics

Hirsch Electronics manufactures physical security systems for worldwide markets. Hirsch is a recognized leader in IP-based security solutions that interoperate with other networked databases, devices and systems. Hirsch's award-winning role-based access control (RBAC), identity management, and security management systems integrate access control, digital video, alarm monitoring, smart cards and biometrics. Hirsch security solutions are IT-centric, highly secure, and scalable to even the largest organizations. Website: www.HirschElectronics.com. Hirsch Electronics is located at 1900-B Carnegie Avenue, Santa Ana, California, 92705, U.S.A., Phone: [phone], E-mail: [e-mail]; Website: www.HirschElectronics.com.

Hirsch Electronics, the Hirsch logo, Velocity, ScramblePad, and Verification Station are trademarks or registered trademarks of Hirsch Electronics Corp. or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the individual companies

[igoe104] 05/2/2008 17:13

The good thing in government contracts is its recession proof, so i don,t worry about day to day trading. anyway seems microsoft are thinking igp direction, lets hope they want to involve us as well.


RSA - Microsoft pledges support for OpenID
Microsoft will support the OpenID standard, Bill Gates and Craig Mundie said Tuesday at RSA.
Robert McMillan (IDG News Service) 07/02/2007 07:46:58
Microsoft has thrown its weight behind OpenID, an emerging Web authentication standard.

The announcement was made Tuesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco during a joint keynote by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie that was long on vision and short on specifics.

Microsoft pledged to work to integrate OpenID with its CardSpace identity management software, which is now available in conjunction with Windows Vista. "The marriage of CardSpace and OpenID 2.0 is actually a giant step forward," Mundie said.

By integrating these two technologies, Microsoft expects to "eliminate the issue of the man-in-the-middle-attack," Mundie said. In these attacks, which are increasingly being used by phishers, a thief steals sensitive information by setting up a fake Web site that passes information back and forth between the victim and the legitimate Web site.

OpenID is an emerging open-source standard that simplifies the task of logging on to many different Web sites.

Gates and Mundie spent much of their keynote discussing how their company plans to simplify security and make the process of managing digital identities easier.

IT professionals could achieve both ends by getting rid of log-in passwords and replacing them with strong, certificate-based authentication techniques like smart cards, Gates said. "Passwords are not only weak. Passwords have a huge problem. If you get more and more of them, the worse it is," he said.

"We see smart cards ... [and] certificates in general as the way these things should go. You'll be presenting certificates as opposed to weak passwords," he said.

Microsoft hopes to drive the adoption of smart cards, with the launch of its Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, introduced at RSA. Expected to ship on May 1, this software integrates technology from Microsoft's 2005 acquisition of Alacris with the company's Identity Integration Server. The software will make it easier for users to integrate strong authentication technologies like smart cards into Microsoft networks.

Mundie suggested that in order for security to work, technology companies will need to turn their thinking upside down, to a certain extent. "Security was really a blocking thing," Mundie said. "How do you invert this ... so these security mechanisms become a thing that makes it simpler for anyone to be granted permission to get [network] access."

Microsoft plans to achieve this by switching the focus using technologies like IPsec (Internet Protocol security) and IPv6 (IP version 6), Mundie said. The company has already been using these technologies for the past two and a half years in an internal access control system that is better about granting employees and contractors access to the data and applications that they need, but keeping them away from the rest of the network, he said.

With breaches being reported every week -- often after the loss of a laptop computer -- companies need to think beyond locking down the perimeter of their networks, Mundie added. "The threat model is changing in fundamental ways. We could continue to invest in this fortress mentality of protecting everything, but I don't think that would be sufficient," he said. "Our castle is fairly porous because a lot of our assets leave the castle."

Microsoft's broad vision did not impress one attendee.

"This was the most content-free presentation I've seen at RSA in years," said Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer with BT Group PLC's Counterpane unit. "My guess is that most people in the room could have given that talk because it's where we all want to go."

The keynote, in which Gates and his successor sat side-by-side and, at times, finished each others thoughts, appeared to be a symbolic handing over of power, Schneier said.

Gates will be stepping down from his day-to-day duties in July 2008, at which point Mundie will take over Microsoft's research efforts.

But Schneier doesn't expect Gates to appear at next year's conference. "The take-away is Craig's

[237gmoney] 05/2/2008 16:12

The markets arent helping with the US data just out but the fact is contracts are in place and security is going to expand with the digital age. MM's are playing a tough game here trying to attract buyers but why are the directors not buying when they would pay 35p???

Anything to boost confidence would lift the share price again. I know its a long hold here but frustrating when its falling all the same....

[barn owl] 05/2/2008 16:00

I agree, it looks highly vulnerable now. Maybe i should change my user name to a preying vulture!
Good luck.

[boadicea] 05/2/2008 15:51

BARN OWL - I strongly doubt that its independence would survive that sort of valuation.

[boadicea] 05/2/2008 15:48

I suppose it is quite common for small companies with obvious potential to have a proportion of speculative holders with limited time-frames. When they have to sell they are dependent on matching to willing buyers. At times like this even willing buyers will sit on their hands waiting for a better price, knowing they hold the trump card.
Result = silly prices.

The market is littered with similarly afflicted small cos while some larger companies in distinctly vulnerable sectors seem relatively unscathed.

I like companies exporting or licensing technology to the Middle and Far East where a sinking pound will accentuate success while avoiding those supplying or servicing mainly Western consumer markets unless they have exceptional potential or forward visibility.

The non-consumer, universally applicable and security-demanded nature of IGP's technology persuades me that it is definitely one to hold on to.

[barn owl] 05/2/2008 15:41

I think these were around 10p a few years ago (2003 & 2005), so they might be there again if the selling continues. I might buy a few for a high risk punt if they do!
Good luck all.

[237gmoney] 05/2/2008 15:20

you have to wonder how low will this go......

[jailbird] 05/2/2008 15:11

unbelievable ..10k sell dropped the bid, then another 10k came in.

[237gmoney] 04/2/2008 16:38

Sorry yes drop the s and it should work.

I see in Gemalto's Q4 earnings report they show security products continue to grow at a mega rate of 35%...seems ID cards will be a big growth market in 2008 again.

[jailbird] 04/2/2008 14:59

237,

take out the s from https, then link will work.

[237gmoney] 04/2/2008 13:53

https://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/twicquarterlydeploymentschedule.pdf

Hopefully some news before march.....starting to get boring now....

[jailbird] 03/2/2008 20:11

nice on graham

[4graham] 03/2/2008 19:31

jailbird

i clicked on your link post 2315 and went to the tiers of trust website. Intercede`s MyID PIV appears on the FIPS 201 Evaluation Program list of approved products.

Our other partners also appear on the list - gemalto thales etc

[jailbird] 02/2/2008 21:27

footage on FRAC and winter storm

[jailbird] 02/2/2008 21:08

views on this WJ and all..

I hope IGP applied and registered for the TTC

[jailbird] 02/2/2008 20:51

this is worth a read..shows the size of these projects

[237gmoney] 02/2/2008 19:05

WJ how much Cap gains do you have!!! ok never mind....hopefully things will turn around soon......

[smartmoney100] 01/2/2008 18:19

You can sleep with mine for 80k shares

:-)

[wjccghcc] 01/2/2008 18:17

Sorry to disappoint but I was doing another bed and spouse transaction with 80k shares.

[237gmoney] 01/2/2008 17:44

Just realised someone just bought 0.4% of the company there....and the price didnt budge...am expecting blue Monday morning!

[237gmoney] 01/2/2008 17:42

13:33:54 01-Feb-2008 26.05 80,000 20,840.00 Ordinary Trade - Delayed
13:33:48 01-Feb-2008 26.00 80,000 20,800.00 Ordinary Trade - Delayed
14:57:20 29-Jan-2008 26.00 5,000 1,300.00 Ordinary Trade
14:31:24 29-Jan-2008 26.00 4,000 1,040.00 Ordinary Trade

Seems the tide is finally changing.....soon we will be heading off to sea again.
I hope everyone is on board, the seas are rough out there but we will make it!!!

By the way i havent been drinking....will be later though! Nice trades gone through hopefully more to come!

[igoe104] 01/2/2008 15:06

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01 February 2008
Article by Yuban Moodley and Ian Stevens
British citizens will not be forced to obtain identity cards until 2012, over two years later than originally planned, leaked Home Office have shown. ID cards will be issued to foreign nationals from this year, and available to British nationals who want them from 2009.
Further leaked documents suggest that certain sectors of the public may effectively be compelled to join the scheme from 2010, despite a statement from the prime minister announcing that ID cards will not become compulsory for British citizens without Parliament's approval. The disclosed documents suggested linking the obtaining of new bank accounts, student loans and drivers licences to the issuing of the cards.
In accordance with the framework timetable, only 6 companies now remain as prime contractors in the competitive dialogue stage. Fujitsu Services, CSC, EDS, IBM, Steria and Thales will now receive the draft contract and high level business requirements in their bids to become one of five companies likely to be awarded a contract in May.

[237gmoney] 01/2/2008 10:00

I expect the share price will recover soon and not many shares will be available less than 30p as that would be giving them away....

I see the asia banks are starting to see things the IGP way


Could be massive if the banks over there start producing smartcards etc. I expect most of it wont go to IGP but we do have links in Thailand and only a matter of time before Asia comes in line with the rest of the world.

[jailbird] 01/2/2008 09:24

not that it may mean anything...but
MMs are only selling 1.5k online and now will take 25k at bid price.
I'm even more surprised.

Anyone reckon a buy order is in?

i do not usually take into online trades as any sign as by calling them you get
different deals...however with a stock that is illiquid 25k can be sold online is unusal for IGP
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