Our generic roadmaps are typically technology independent.  The intent is to make each user experience as simple, rewarding and productive as possible.   Value received is in large part a function of team effort, top-level support, careful planning and attention to detail.

Sources of Innovative Products & Solutions . . . . Some of the best are from cottage industry startups.  Their ultimate value will come from hybrid solutions that merge the benefits from various component technologies.

FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF IMPROVED SOLUTIONS INTRODUCED THROUGH ROCKWOOD MANAGEMENT.

• User Identity Control & Data Protection focusing on emerging Biometrics and Beyond Encryption capabilities.

• Energy Independence - It takes a combination of more efficient technology/products, as well as, conservation, discipline and new sources. 

• Mobile Communications - When default settings of wireless routers provide no protection, how many home-based employees are really protecting Corporate Intellectual Property?

• Automation and Robotics

• Remote Healthcare Diagnosis and Treatment

• Nanotechnology

• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) complements biometrics when it comes to laying a foundation of identification that facilitates greater automation.

Please contact us for assistance.   info@Rockwood.com

Technology Starter Packages

Enable and facilitate simple beginnings.  Solve typical problems while bringing additional, unexpected benefits, value and a foundation for future growth and enhancement.

It can be difficult to get started with something new.  Having incentives is helpful, but finding the best entry point and a roadmap for adopting new technologies is essential.  The right start offers the greatest opportunity for initial value, but also helps to reinforce interest in making further investments.  Following are important areas where new products are available that, we believe, are well-worth your consideration.   Some have only recently become available to business customers.  Please email us to request more information or a follow-up call.  info@Rockwood.com

USER IDENTITY CONTROL & DATA PROTECTION:   Referring to the diagram above, an evaluation kit is available to assist those building awareness (first box) and considering and evaluating product choices (second box).  The following are designed for those graduating to the third task.   Secure Laptop and Mobile Solutions - Protect laptops containing valuable and sensitive information wherever they are taken or used.  There is no excuse for becoming another statistic.  Because of its long range, the router that we recommend is also perfect for other applications such as cost-effective communication with wireless, IP-enabled, surveillance cameras. Fraud Reducing Time & Attendance Solutions - Realize enhanced productivity, user convenience and savings while stopping payroll abuses. New Biometric Authentication Solution Overcomes Enterprise-Wide, Web App Vulnerabilities - This user-friendly product is in a class-by-itself for eCommerce, HIPAA compliance, banking and financial services protection of identities, assets and private information. Award Winning, Forensic Quality, VCR-like Recording and Playback captures system activity down to each and every User Access and Key Stroke. Secure Printing - Compliance and confidentiality requires it.  Why run to the copier/printer/fax when your job can wait until you get there before it prints? Fingerprint Biometrics Plus File and Folder Encryption is available packaged with USB Flash Drives and Portable Hard Drives. Custom, Integrated Solutions - A selection of Software Development Kits (SDKs) makes it easy and convenient to add biometrics to software applications.

Although the elimination of privacy & data breaches is a major objective from the replacement of passwords with biometrics, other  benefits result.

White Papers

• Biometrics

  • *"Helping You Build a Better Business Case for Biometrics or Any Emerging Technology or Project"

  • *"Motivating and Facilitating the Change to Biometrics . . . To Address Identity Theft, Privacy and Data Breaches, and Much More"

  • "Misconceptions about Biometrics"

  • "Fingerprint Biometrics 101"

• Contingency Planning & Disaster Recovery

  • "It Can't Happen . . . . or Can It?  How should we deal with risk?"

• Marketing, Sales and Customer Service

  • "VENDORS:  Give Channel Partners What They Need To Help YOU!"

  • "Pitfalls to Avoid When Launching Hi-Tech Products"

  • "Rockwood on Selling AND What to Do About It"

• Managing Technology

  • *"Helping You Build a Better Business Case for Biometrics or Any Emerging Technology or Project"

  • "Adopting, using and discarding technology"

  • "SUBJECTIVITY IMPACTS TECHNOLOGY DECISIONS - Based Upon Beliefs, Philosophy, Experience and Underlying Principles"

  • "Technical Synergies Increase Total Value To Customers and Investors"

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Recommended Reading

• Articles

  • "GOING GREEN:  Eco-Rebels.  Few still doubt climate change is real, but now the skeptics are questioning the best way to deal with it," by Bryan Walsh, Time, October 15, 2007, page 72.  Included are examples of "How NOT to Solve Global Warming."

  • "Angle of Questioning," Newsweek, March 19, 2007, p. 13.  It is not just the technology, but how it is applied.  This short article describes how the positioning of video cameras can bias those viewing taped confessions.

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• Books (Links go to amazon.com where you can view excerpts and reviews as well as make purchases.  When excerpts are available, click on "Search Inside This Book," usually found below pictures of the book.  Each one of them is included in the Rockwood Library.

  • Step-by-step QFD (Quality Function Deployment): Customer Driven Product Design by John Terninko.  An excellent, practical, visual guide that details an effective process for translating customer needs into customer satisfying products that outperform the competition.

  • Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt by Andrew Jaquith.  The author uses Lord Kelvin's profound quotation, ""If you can not measure it, you can not improve it."as an inspiration to stimulate a reasoned approach to security and risk management.

  • Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems by John R. Vacca.  Between its two covers, you will probably find out more than you will ever need to know about biometrics in a well organized, accessible format.

  • They Just Don't Get It by Colonel David Hunt.  Interesting for its perspective on the war on terrorism.  However, it is hard not to see parallels with typical business management situations.

  • Automation, Control and Complexity: An Integrated Approach edited by T. Samad and J. Weyrauch.  The book addresses opportunities to turn complexity into unforeseen business value through automation and integration.

  • Breakpoint, a novel by Richard A. Clarke.  Fast interesting reading with fantastic insight into technology, its expected implications and the growing impact it is having on our future.

  • Who Goes There?  Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy.  From the National Research Council of the National Academies.  Promotes broad understanding as it puts key facets of privacy, identity theft and protection in perspective.

  • How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman.  Identifies important considerations when designing fail-safe medical systems, tools and solutions.  Why not consider parallels with other disciplines?

  • So You Built It And They Didn't Come. Now What? by Jackie Bassett.  Sound advice for entrepreneurs with high tech products who need help to get sales going.

  • The Business Case Guide by Marty J. Schmidt.  Focuses on an essential tool in justifying and planning projects.

  • Major Bob Unvarnished: Why We Keep Making the Same Mistakes by Bob Bevelacqua & Brian Fugate.  The entire book is interesting reading and provides a useful perspective on the U. S. military and government and the current Iraqi situation,  Of special importance is Chapter 4 (Corporate Security:  What Can We Do?) which provides 25 pages of common sense that every business leader should take to heart and use as a yardstick to measure the performance of employees, subordinants and advisors.

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Important Organizations and Associations . . . . Following are ones that we have found to be of special interest.

• The Shadowserver Foundation (www.Shadowserver.org) is an all volunteer watchdog group of security professionals that gather, track, and report on malware, botnet activity, and electronic fraud.  It is the mission of the Shadowserver Foundation to improve the security of the Internet by raising awareness of the presence of compromised servers, malicious attackers, and the spread of malware.

Financing for Startups . . . . Investors are always in demand . . . . advertise your financial needs, or an interest in assisting others

• There currently are investment opportunities to help fund projects and startups in Security/Biometrics and Energy related technologies.     Please email us for details.   info@Rockwood.com

Help Wanted or Available . . . . advertise partner opportunities, jobs or personal availability

• Firms in the Biometrics/Security field are currently looking for business partners to extend their geographical and technical reach.    Please email us describing your firm's interest and availability.  info@Rockwood.com

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