John

17 Aug 2007 12:12 AM

What USB Biometric stick do you use that can run without the OS? i've looked and can't find one anywhere.

Thanks

rhalbheer

17 Aug 2007 1:15 AM

I am using one of a company called Veridicom (http://www.veridicom.com/). There is at least one other vendor but I cannot give you the names (as I do not have them :-))

Roger

Paul

20 Aug 2007 11:30 PM

Yeah, that does seem to be a big problem. The Veridicom sticks are about $130 US as opposed to $50 or so for vendors such as Axiom...so what seems like an inexpensive solution ends up being close to what one could maybe do with a more comprehensive biometric solution. The $100 or so for Software Assurance to even get BitLocker for a new machine us $130 a piece for bio readers makes a practical BitLocker deployment rather spendy.

Anybody else know of any less-expensive BL-compatible bio USB sticks? Gonna have to go PIN if I can't find one soon.