SanDisk designs, develops, manufactures and markets flash storage card products used in a variety of electronic systems. Flash storage cards allow data to be stored in a compact, removable format. SanDisk’s flash card products help drive the mass market for sales of digital cameras, multimedia mobile phones, USB flash drives and other digital consumer devices. SanDisk holds more than 350 U.S. and foreign patents and licenses its technology to several companies.
SanDisk’s Cruzer® Profile USB flash drive incorporates UPEK’s TouchStrip™ Fingerprint Authentication Solution to protect user data and enables portable access to password-protected applications and websites with the swipe of a finger. The Cruzer Profile is the first mass-market USB flash drive to offer true portability of fingerprint security – authentication software runs on the flash drive instead of the host computer so the user can enjoy the convenience and security of biometric protection at any PC without leaving a trace. Available in storage capacities of 512MB and 1GB, the Cruzer Profile is also the first high capacity drive with integrated fingerprint security for the broad consumer market.
UPEK’s TouchStrip Fingerprint Authentication Solution enables the SanDisk Cruzer Profile to ensure that authorized users gain access and unauthorized users are denied access by leveraging the accurate sensing capability of UPEK’s patented active capacitive sensing technology. UPEK’s embedded chipset also enables the security of on-drive authentication by performing storage and matching at the hardware level and eliminating the vulnerability of data transfer to the host PC.
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