Competitor American Biometric Co.'s BioMouse also offers versions for several Unix platforms as well as Entrust Technologies Ltd.'s Entrust clients.
Voice recognition is even less expensive, since many PCs come with the required hardware.
However, fingerprint scans are less affected by changes in the environment than either of these methods. A touch of security Installing the Puppy Secure Logon System was simple and fast. To ensure quick fingerprint matching, Puppy allows users to record multiple finger templates for each of their fingers. Our tests showed the default configuration, which includes a verification setting of 2, was more than satisfactory, rapidly accepting legitimate employees and quickly detecting intruders. Users can either be enrolled at a single machine or be given the ability to update their own print templates.