Steven Lee Bender was an American entrepreneur and founder of both Altamira Group and iMagic Software. Bender made contributions to digital imaging and Photoshop, and to authentication for distributed systems by supporting turning passwords into a biometric akin to fingerprints. Information technology analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group commented in January 2007 that this new technology was "a compelling solution in a world where identity theft and illegal access are the greatest growing threats to a business or family".