JEDDAH, 5 May 2005 — Security solutions were discussed at a seminar hosted by EmaxIT International at Jeddah Hilton yesterday.
Akram A. Sha’ar, sales and marketing manager at Elaf Travel & Tourism, in his presentation highlighted various innovative solutions available for security from the US-based company.
Describing biometrics as the growing security sector in the West, he said it was a technology to serve every security-conscious individual and entity. He detailed its usefulness at various levels in both public and private sector establishments.
EmaxIT strongly advocates strategic planning for problem solving or decision-making processes. It also advocates strategic planning for problem-solving or decision-making processes. “Its business stratagem converges on the creation, sharing and managing of business knowledge linked via the Internet, Intranet or through any other similar network,” Sha’ar said.
The company profile includes VP-II. “With VP-II the ID is in your veins,” he said. Tech-sphere’s VP-II biometric scanner verifies identities by means of the vein pattern on the back of the hand. Since its introduction in the Far East in 2001, it has become a popular access control and time attendance device demonstrating outstanding usability and reliability at thousands of access points.
“VP-II is characterized by ease of use,” he said, adding that its features include reliability, security, versatility and scalability,” he added.
The company profile also includes HandPunch 4000, which brings the flexibility of a full function time and attendance terminal together with the sophistication of the most accurate identification technology available, Cascade Proximity Reader (P-300), which is a member of the Pyramid Series Proximity line of OEM proximity readers, and MifareProx, which is a smartcard reader with fingerprint verification.
Besides there is Bioscrypt (V-Flex), which if installed next to a Wiegand-based reader, adds dual factor authentication to an existing access control system. Organizations with security systems that include keypads, barcode or proximity readers can now add the enhanced security offered by biometric technology without reissuing cards or replacing their existing infrastructure.
Later speaking to Arab News Abdullah H.S. Al-Salamah, director of the Jeddah-based Middle East regional office of EmaxIT said security solutions were available for a variety of uses in any type of industry, security agencies, financial bodies like banks and stock exchanges, telecommunication organizations, as well as airports and health sector, especially hospitals. In his opening remarks Douglas Wallace, principal commercial officer at the US Consulate General, said the Saudi-US bilateral trade had been growing dramatically. “It’s growing at the rate of 10 percent per annum,” he said.
Kifah Najem, technical supervisor at the company, gave technical details in reply to a wide range of questions from the audience, who included businessmen involved in security products and services, as well as interested officials and executives from various public and private sector establishments.
