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Delfigo launches security product, signs deal with Children’s Hospital
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Delfigo Corp., a Boston developer of authentication software, announced Tuesday the launch of its first product, DSGateway, and the signing of Children’s Hospital Boston as its first customer.
Mass High Tech first wrote about the MIT spinout, launched last July, in February. The company’s product aims to boost the validity of an individual’s sign-on by ensuring he or she not only typed the right letters of a password, but typed them the right way.
“We’re saying ‘How confident are we that you are who you say you are?’ and based on that, what will we allow you to do,” said Bharat Nair, vice president of business development at Delfigo, in an interview.
Instead of using hardware such as authentication tokens or installed software, Delfigo uses JavaScript information ascertained from a user’s web browser to amass a unique profile — how fast an individual types, how quickly one moves from one key to the next and how long one presses down on a key — and measures the password based on those standards.
Delfigo’s software uses a mathematical equation to develop a “confidence factor,” which determines how much access one can get into the secure information.
“Most authentication systems either let you all in or not let you in,” said Delfigo CEO Ralph Rodriguez in an interview. “But anyone can steal someone’s password or borrow a password.”
Nair said Children’s Hospital will be using the system to allow a regional network of medical professionals access to patient information, but varying the type of access depending on patient need. With federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act rules requiring greater control over patient information as well as auditing capabilities, he said hospitals are attracted to the layered approach to the software.
Delfigo is also working with players in the financial services and e-commerce sectors on a test basis and hopes to ink more contracts in the coming months.
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