Corporate Fact Sheet

Founded

October 1998

Headquarters

Financial Status

AuthenTec successfully completed its initial public offering on July 2, 2007 and is now traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the ticker symbol “AUTH.”

Profile

AuthenTec provides security, identity management and touch control solutions for enterprise and consumer applications. The Company's smart sensor products and security solutions are used in virtually every aspect of life, from the PC on your desk to the mobile device in your hand to the server in the cloud. AuthenTec's newest generation of TruePrint® smart sensors, TrueSuite® identity management software and TrueProtect™ embedded security products (formerly SafeNet Embedded Security Solutions) provide developers and users secure and convenient ways to manage today's rapidly evolving digital identities and security needs. 

Technology

AuthenTec's patented TruePrint^® and TrueMatch^® technologies allow fingerprints to be read below the surface of the skin to the live layer - or true fingerprint. As such, TruePrint is not affected by common skin surface conditions including dry, worn, calloused, dirty or oily skin that can affect other sensors’ ability to acquire accurate fingerprint images for user authentication purposes. TruePrint and TrueMatch are the only fingerprint sensor technologies capable of acquiring everyone's fingerprint under virtually any condition. The technologies are the driver behind AuthenTec's ability to provide the broadest range of form factors and the lowest cost fingerprint sensors available on the market today.

Products

AuthenTec's award-winning fingerprint sensors take full advantage of "The Power of Touch" by utilizing the company's patented TruePrint and TrueMatch technologies to deliver most convenient, reliable and cost-effective means available for enabling touch-powered features that extend beyond user authentication.  Through its acquisition of SafeNet's Embedded Security Solutions Division in February 2010, AuthenTec now offers a comprehensive embedded security portfolio that includes IP security (IPsec) toolkits, semiconductor IP and security processors.

Customers/AuthenTec Alliance Members

AuthenTec Alliance members include solution providers and customers including: Aratek, AT&T devCentral, BIO-key, Digital Persona, Imprivata, Microsoft, OKI, Orange, Precise Biometrics, Qualcomm, Renesas, Softex,  Symbian, Texas Instruments, Unigen, and others.

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