Product: BioPassword

Development team: Artur Babayan, Brian O'Neill, Bobby Bhasin, Chaz Spahn, Danny DeSousa, Jagadeesan Baskar, Jared Pfost, John Stacy, Jonathan (Hong) Wang, Kulwinder Deol, Lensey Hau, Mark Gamache, Mechthild Kellas-Dicks, Mike Stewart, Seshadri Mani and Steve Comninos

Information security has adopted a number of procedures from the military. One of the latest is using keystroke rhythm as a method of identifying users.

"We see that passwords are increasingly at risk because of known vulnerabilities and new cybercrime threats," says Ant Allan, a U.K.-based Gartner Inc. infosecurity and privacy analyst. "More organizations are looking at stronger authentication methods."

One approach is to move to biometric technologies, such as fingerprint scanners, voice-recognition systems and retina scanners, which physically identify the person logging on.