Press release: Spear Innovations partners with Sentry Enterprises.
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Pori, Finland – November 25, 2024 – Spear Innovations Oy Ltd, a leading provider of high-assurance identity solutions in the Nordics, announces a strategic partnership with Sentry Enterprises, a pioneer in decentralized identity and biometric security solutions. This collaboration brings cutting-edge biometric smartcard technology to enterprises in Europe. This partnership introduces advanced battery-less biometric authentication capabilities to Spear Innovations’ comprehensive security portfolio. The solution combines state-of-the-art fingerprint sensor technology with FIDO2 and PIV/PKI capabilities. This offers organizations a biometric high assurance identity solution, which is simple and quick to integrate into existing physical access control and IT systems, while raising the organization’s security posture to a new level.
Key Features and Benefits:
- Biometric Proof of Identity: Biometric identification ensures that the card can only be used by the authorized person.
- Decentralized Biometric Storage: The fingerprint data remains securely stored on the card, not in a central database.
- Passwordless Dual-Purpose Authentication: Full compatibility and seamless support for Spear Innovations’ flagship FIDO2 and PIV/PKI management solution.
- Privacy-First Approach: Aligned with European privacy standards and regulations (GDPR, NIS2, etc.) and privacy best-practices for biometric security.
“This partnership represents a significant step in our mission to provide the highest level of security to our enterprise customers,” comments Antti-Ville Nauha, CEO of Spear Innovations. “By incorporating Sentry Enterprises’ advanced biometric technology into our portfolio, we’re enabling organizations to further improve privacy-focused authentication across their digital environments. The same solution can be implemented for physical access as well.”
About Spear Innovations Spear Innovations Oy Ltd is a Finnish company specializing in strong authentication solutions and services for enterprise customers in the Nordic region. Founded by industry professionals in 2019, Spear Innovations provides high-assurance identity solutions for multiple industries in the Nordics & Baltics area, including security chips, ID smartcards, security keys and authentication tokens, and mobile authentication leveraging strong hardware-based security. For more information, visit www.spear.fi
About Sentry Enterprises Sentry Enterprises is a company based in United States, which is at the forefront of decentralized biometric security, delivering solutions that protect identities and secure access to both physical and digital environments. Its flagship product, SentryCard, redefines identity verification with unmatched security and privacy. For more information, visit www.sentrycard.com.