Last month, Bioscrypt announced that CEO Robert Williams would be stepping down and that Robert Douglas would be grabbing the captain's chair. With a background that includes positions at such companies as Siebel Systems, Oracle Corporation, Pivotal Corporation and recently as president of Psion Teklogix Americas, Douglas brings 22 years in the tech industry, and joined Bioscrypt's board about 2 years ago. Inside Bioscrypt, he's been active as a consultant, looking at scaling the business.

With Douglas' background from the tech sector, it's no surprise that Bioscrypt is heavily pursuing a converged marketplace. The company, perhaps best known for its fingerprint algorithms as used in physical security device, has steadily recognized that access control to the business networks is just as important as access to the physical facility. And with that IT and wireless background, Douglas is seeing a realm of options for the authentication company, just as he sees doors opening to new hardware applications. SecurityInfoWatch.com caught up with Douglas on the phone from the Gartner IT Security Summit for a Q&A on Bioscrypt's technology and where the company might be headed.

"Biometric authentication of users into the enterprise and into the network is definitely on the road map," Douglas said, "and it wouldn't surprise me at all in the next 1 to 3 years that using biometrics as authentication on a mobile device becomes very commonplace.

"Some future things we're digesting include fingerprint technologies in a laptop, maybe on a key fob, or even on a mobile device," Douglas continued. "There could be a day when I authenticate myself to this Blackberry I use so that I could access an enterprise location right from the Blackberry itself, or any mobile device you use."

Significant for Bioscrypt was their recent acquisition of A4Vision, a biometrics firm that had developed unique three-dimensional facial recognition. Bioscrypt began the process of acquiring A4 back in January 2007, and Douglas says that they are now at somewhere around the 90 percent level of fully integrating the two companies. That acquisition, of course, has Douglas thinking about solutions for 3D facial technology, especially in the logical access space.