BROOKVILLE, NY and WALL, NJ, July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BIO-key International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKYI), an innovative provider of workforce and customer identity and access management (IAM) solutions integrating identity-linked biometrics (IBB), announced today Today Long Island University (LIU), a private university with approximately 15,000 students and two campus elementary schools, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn in New York State, re-selected its PortalGuard IAM platform to re-protect its corporate applications and data. The new agreement extends a customer relationship that BIO-key has had with LIU since 2015.
Breaches and cyberattacks against higher education institutions have increased significantly over the past year and pose a serious financial and reputational risk to these institutions. To ward off these cyber threats, institutions need a robust and proven IAM solution that can successfully and cost-effectively adapt to a variety of secure access requirements. LIU continues to leverage the BIO-key PortalGuard IAM platform to strengthen its overall security to effectively respond to these evolving cyber threats while reducing costs and associated burden for its information technology team. A key point for LIU was PortalGuard’s ability to support an integrated security system and allow the institution to leverage previous investments in other security solutions and deliver best-in-class technical capabilities. such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO) and self-service password reset (SSPR) to its user community.
“We are excited to expand our relationship with LIU and offer an integrated security approach to protect the institution,” said Mark Cochran, President of BIO-key – PortalGuard. “Many higher education institutions need to expand their security footprint without increasing net security costs. Institutions are looking for solutions that keep faculty, staff and students safe while reducing business disruption while reducing simultaneously the number of external vendors they have to juggle. We excel in providing security solutions with a tangible return on investment for our customers.”
About BIO-key International, Inc. (www.BIO-key.com)
BIO-key has over two decades of expertise in delivering authentication technologies for thousands of organizations and millions of users and is revolutionizing authentication with multi-factor Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions focused on biometrics, including its PortalGuard IAM solution that provides security and secure access to high-value devices, information, applications and transactions. BIO-key’s patented software and hardware solutions with state-of-the-art biometric capabilities enable on-premises and cloud-based identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) solutions at scale, as well as customized enterprise solutions .
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