Biometric authentication for VPN clients

Found some interesting software and curious how well it works and how secure it actually is.

This software company makes biometric authentication software which can integrate with Checkpoint VPN-1 server and Active Directory. The concept is that a user logs into his/her desktop/laptop with a username, password and biometric fingerprint, and gets authenticated to VPN-1 and Active Directory allowing secure access to network resources and applications. Pretty cool, if it works well.