Daon Accepts Board Seat in Federal Credentialing Network - May 06, 2008
Reston, VA - Daon, a leading provider of identity assurance software today announced it has joined the Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems, Inc. (FiXs®) bringing its award-winning biometrics platform and standards leadership to the organization and has accepted a position on the FiXs Board of Directors. FiXs is a coalition of commercial companies, government contractors, and not-for-profit organizations whose mission is to establish and maintain a worldwide, interoperable identity and cross-credentialing network built on security, privacy, trust, standard operating rules, policies, and technical standards. The FiXs network verifies and authenticates the identity of personnel seeking to enter U.S. military installations and other government-controlled areas, as well as commercial sites tied to the network.
According to Greg Chapman, Daon's Senior VP of Sales for the Americas, "Our membership in FiXs demonstrates our continuing commitment to the US federal market and our continuing contribution to biometric standards development. Daon's leadership in the standards arena is evident as a member of our staff serves as the elected chair of the BioAPI Consortium and for the last several years has been the head of the U.S. delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 (subcommittee on biometrics). We look forward to working with the other FiXs members to provide a trusted mechanism for federated identity management."
"We are pleased to have Daon on our board of directors," said Michael J. Mestrovich, Ph.D., President of FiXs. "Their participation in large-scale identity management projects around the world brings critical lessons learned to our organization. Their biometrics expertise and standards leadership is a valuable addition to our capabilities as a network and we welcome their assistance as we strive to establish secure and interoperable identity verification and authentication for facility and system access."
FiXs currently has 24 member companies, including systems integrators, financial institutions and other organizations working to promote improved workforce protection and systems security for critical infrastructure markets. The U.S. Department of Defense and the General Services Administration are participating government organizations.
About Daon
Daon is a leading provider of identity assurance software products focused on meeting the needs of governments and commercial organizations worldwide. The company was recently recognized with the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Award for Global Biometrics Product Line Strategy Leadership. Daon supports customers and system integrators in building enterprise solutions requiring the highest level of security, performance, scalability, reliability and privacy. The DaonApplicationSuite provides a powerful tool for faster development of scalable, robust and secure identity registration and vetting solutions. Daon's multi-modal authentication infrastructure, DaonEngine, integrates seamlessly with IT platforms and applications and manages the identity life-cycle of small and large populations. Daon's offices are located in Washington DC, Canberra, London and Dublin. For further information please visit http://www.daon.com.
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