DOVER, N.H., Aug. 23, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Liska Biometry (OTCBB:LSKA), a biometrics solutions provider and Cross Match Technologies, a leading global provider of finger and palm print biometric solutions, today announced a strategic marketing alliance and co-marketing agreement aimed at providing a powerful biometric solutions offering for integrated access control.
Pursuant to the agreement, Liska and Cross Match will evaluate, demonstrate and jointly market Liska's revolutionary BIN(TM) software technology with Cross Match's state-of-the-art, forensic quality fingerprint hardware systems. Liska's BIN technology is a revolutionary system that facilitates the rapid and efficient matching of fingerprints captured with Cross Match's fingerprint scanners.
SecurBIN(TM) ACCESS Pilot Project with the Senate of Canada
Liska, in conjunction with its alliance partners Marcomm Fibre Optics, developer of the popular DYNATROL integration software and the leading provider of fully integrated electronic security systems and services in Canada, and Cross Match Technologies, today announced that the Senate Protective Service has agreed to participate in a SecurBIN(TM) ACCESS pilot project at its main security operations center in Ottawa, Canada.
SecurBIN(TM) ACCESS is a high end, biometrically enabled, physical access control solution that integrates the three companies' technologies and provides a highly accurate ID management system with enterprise-wide scalability.
Officers will use SecurBIN(TM) ACCESS and Cross Match biometric access control readers as an access control feature within their existing access control security environment.
"The combination of Cross Match's forensic quality fingerprint access control readers with Liska/Marcomm's offering provides a powerful, customized, integrated physical access control solution for high end customers," said Tom Buss, Cross Match Sr. Vice President of Engineering.
"There is a tremendous amount of synergy between Liska and Cross Match," said Christopher J. LeClerc, CEO of Liska Biometry. "We have an immediate requirement to align our leading-edge biometric software offering with a high quality, biometric access control vendor for deployment to anticipated customers; this is a natural fit. Together, Liska, Marcomm and Cross Match will meet a wider range of customer needs and have a significantly greater opportunity to grow into new markets, particularly customized physical and logical access control," he added.
About Cross Match Technologies, Inc.
Since its founding in 1996, Cross Match Technologies, Inc. has been at the forefront of applying forensic quality fingerprint imaging technology towards the development of cost-effective biometric security solutions for law enforcement, federal, aviation, commercial and international organizations. Cross Match's products are used in the U.S. and over 40 countries to protect people, buildings, equipment and assets against crime and terrorism. Customers include organizations such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Marshals, Merrill Lynch, Federal Express, 73 nuclear power plants, 80 airports and 14 seaports. Headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and offering the broadest product lines in the industry, Cross Match is recognized for setting new standards in fingerprint imaging components through its more than 140 existing or pending patents and related intellectual properties. Additional information on Cross Match is available at www.crossmatch.com .
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