Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Work Without Traces: From Any Point on the Planet

In an age when people you don't know are tracking your every move, your privacy is important.



n-Tegrity protects your privacy by not leaving any trace of your communication on the host computer you are using it on. Whether you are checking/sending your email, talking on Skype, or VPN or RDCing back to your office - no matter where you are - no trace is left on the host computer.

If you travel and work, then n-Tegrity is for you.

Much more than a flash disk

People make the common mistake of thinking of n-Tegrity as a USB flash disk. In truth, it is much more than a flash disk.

n-Tegrity is a password and data manager. It gathers all your web account passwords (email, paypal, bank, etc.) and logs you in to them in one click. It's a powerful encryption engine, allowing you to authorize specific people to be able to open files and thus ensure that only they will be able to see them. n-Tegrity allows for fingerprint-secured one-click VPN connections from any point in the world, allowing you to keep track of all your various servers and passwords; You can feel safe about keeping your credit card numbers and other sensitive data in the data manager.

With Encrypted Virtual Disks, you can section off a disappearing partition on your local drive (or your friend's), on which you can install programs and files; It will be encrypted and only you will be able to mount it using your fingerprint; and you can also mount it on other computers by trasferring the encrypted mount file on your n-Tegrity or sending it to yourself by email.

And for corporations who need to keep track of logins, it provides peace of mind when they impliment n-Surf, the fingerprint-based web login module to their secure web areas.

And to do the Flash memory justice, a great feature of n-Tegrity is that you can install and run software on the Flash memory from any computer. n-Tegrity plugs-and-plays on any Windows XP, Server 2003, and Vista (coming soon) PC.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Fingerprint web authentication: it's exciting

The news about fingerprint web autentication is very exciting. The implications are enormous: it will change the way we treat Internet security.

Why? because password security is a joke. Not only that you can lose it, or that someone can steal it from you (mostly using "Forgot your password?" mechanisms), but you can hand it for somebody else to log-in for you. Which means that nobody trusts no one: you don't trust the system, and the system doesn't trust you.

Online Voting

One application of this is online voting: so far, no one was serious about electing government officials over the Internet. But, with mounting accusations of rigged votes in the most democratically advanced western governments, maybe establishing an online, fingerprint-based voting system is the democratic way to go. Whether rigged votes occured or not, the possibility that this could happen is enormous. The test for it is simple: does the average person on the street know who counts the votes? did he meet and speak to them? My bet is 99.9% of people are quite oblivious.

Online Banking

This is easier to relate to: we all bank online. There's simply not enough time to visit our banker all the time, and in Canada, you can turn into an ice cube half way down the road to the nearest bank.

But protect bank accounts by password? Are you kidding? I don't know the bank fraud statistics off the top of my head, but they're huge. eMarketer released a study indicating that 29% of Americans want fingerprint biometrics implemented for logging into bank websites.

N-Tegrity makes life a little safer by allowing you to connect to a your bank website in one click through the fingerprint protected password manager, which allows for much more complicated and hard to guess passwords. At the same time, n-Surf is the most compelling technology right now, and promises a real fingerprint-reliant techonology for logging in. Banks should implement it.

n-Tegrity introduces you into another dimension

I just had a fascinating thought. If I wrote a secret diary (which I may or may not be doing), where would I store it? In my computer? On my GMail account? Yes, it's password protected, but also easy to reach and steal: GMail holds the right to read it. Even if it's on the computer, someone can sneak up to it and read it, or even copy it.

But n-Tegrity creates a little bubble world for me where nobody else can enter. It's a biometric shield, like another dimensions from Sliders, where a hole opens up in the air and I jump right through it, taking me into another time warp.

There's an old Hebrew saying: Kol Adam Olam Katan: each person is a little world. With n-Tegrity, you can actually enter your little world... your little biometrically sealed chamber. Like the tree house I built when I was a kid and felt safe that only my friends and I knew where it was and what was inside. Except now, only my finger knows what's inside.