Cypress And UPEK Team To Offer Biometric Security Reference Design With Market’s Strongest Protection For External Hard Disk Drives

Cypress And UPEK Team To Offer Biometric Security Reference Design With Market's Strongest Protection For External Hard Disk Drives

The reference design enables manufacturers of HDDs to add biometric security that only allows those with a registered fingerprint to access data on the drives. It features match-on-chip, hardware-based authentication for the strongest data and privacy protection available.

Design Leverages Cypress's USB Technology and UPEK's Fingerprint Authentication Solution To Keep Data Secure with a Simple Touch of a Finger

The reference design delivers the industry's strongest security by authenticating fingerprint matches on-board the external HDD system instead of on the PC, ensuring no data is passed between the HDD and PC until a match has occurred. The new CY4661 reference design uses UPEK's TouchStrip™ Fingerprint High Security Authentication Solution along with Cypress's EZ-USB FX2LP™ USB controller to address the growing need for secure personal information and enterprise data on portable drives.