IBM and Fujitsu have partnered on a single sign-on product that reads a user's palm vein patterns in lieu of a password.

"The offering combines IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Single Sign-On and Fujitsu's PalmSecure LOGONDIRECTOR biometrics software," writes DarkReading's Kelly Jackson Higgins. "The goal is to eliminate password management challenges and the threat of lost or stolen passwords."

"Palm-vein biometrics uses near-infrared light to capture palm-vein patterns in a person's hand, which serves as their identity to the systems," Higgins writes.

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