Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Daon unveils UnifiedID

Friday, September 19, 2008

Daon announced that it would unveil its new UnifiedID product at the Biometric Consortium Conference Sept. 23-25 in Tampa, Florida. UnifiedID is a system that provides secure biometric enrollment, verification, and provisioning to logical and physical access systems.


With UnifiedID, users can enroll a person’s biographic information, fingerprints, and photograph in one place and have it available for accessing secure physical areas as well as computer networks. The system is built on the Daon platform, providing vendor neutrality, scalability and security.

The UnifiedID product can be seen at BCC in expo booth # 201, along with Daon’s latest release of DaonEnroll (version 2.2) and a number of partner solutions demonstrating the integration of devices and algorithms with the Daon biometrics platform. [end] 

Gemalto announced the launch of ProtivaMedSecure, a solution package that addresses one of challenges facing health care providers: a secure digital identity.

Gemalto’s Protiva MedSecure provides a portfolio of authentication software, digital credentials, secure devices, servers and associated services. The Gemalto solution provides a single credential for secure visual identity, as well as physical and logical access to medical facilities and electronic medical records.

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CSC has partnered with identity authentication technology and services provider Daon to produce a biometric multifactor authentication service for the banking industry. The product, called ConfidentID Mobile, provides in and out-of-band identity authentication for transactions in multiple channels, including online and mobile.

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HID Global announced the company’s mobile access strategy briefing at ISC West 2012 is available for viewing online. During the event, HID and its parent company ASSA ABLOY examined the growing market opportunities as access control goes mobile to deliver new ways for the industry to create, use and manage secure identity.

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Hirsch Identive announced the launch of its new DIGI*Net series access controllers and Velocity 3.5 software platforms.

The new Velocity and DIGI*Net platforms are an access control solution that expands native identity management capability to bridge physical and IT infrastructures. This enables organizations to improve security, reduce data redundancy and comply with current and evolving information and physical security standards.

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DeviceFidelity has unveiled the latest addition to its lineup of NFC-enabled protective cases for the iPhone, the In2Pay iCaisse4X NFC.

When equipped with Device Fidelity’s In2Pay microSD, the iCaisse4X enables iPhone users to fully utilize NFC features such as card emulation, NFC tag reading and writing, mobile payments and peer-to-peer data exchange while offering an extended battery that provides several more hours of use.

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In order to release its H1Biometric Finger Vein scanner to the U.S. market, Hitachi Europe Ltd. has signed a strategic partnership with M2SYS, making the company Hitachi’s primary Value Added Reseller for this product in North America.

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