Daon Announces Liberty Alliance Project Membership; Daon to Contribute to the Universal Standardization of Authentication Solutions.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2002 Daon, a provider of security and accountability software systems, today announced its membership of the Liberty Alliance Project, a business and technology consortium formed to develop open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced for federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. network identity. Daon's membership of the Liberty Alliance Project demonstrates a commitment to providing an enterprise security infrastructure while protecting the privacy of an organization's core audiences, specifically vendors, employees, customers and partners. This membership will enable Daon to contribute to the universal standardization of authentication solutions. "We are excited to announce Daon's participation in the Liberty Alliance Project," said Oliver Tattan, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Daon. "Daon's experience with legislative and regulatory issues allows us to contribute valuable insight as progress is made toward the development of an industry-wide interoperable standard." In addition to its work with the Liberty Alliance Project, Daon also chairs the European Biometric Forum, an EU-sponsored organization created to develop a roadmap for the European biometrics industry over the period 2003-2010, and to develop a blueprint for an EU-wide forum for biometrics. Daon's unique approach to enterprise security via a Biometric Trust Infrastructure delivers a robust platform that serves the full identity management lifecycle. The company's core philosophy, protecting the privacy of the individual while maintaining a high level of security, supports the Liberty Alliance's goal to enable a global network through which businesses can easily conduct private and secure transactions. Daon's identity management solutions provide organizations in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , government, pharmaceutical, and transportation industries with the technology needed to address both the infrastructure and end-user aspects of an integrated security solution, using biometrics as the validation platform. Daon's infrastructure technology, the DaonEngine, is designed to manage multiple security pain points, including fraud control, compliance, employee accountability and enterprise risk reduction, and addresses the critical need to establish a flexible and robust solution customizable for all of these sectors. About the Liberty Alliance Project The Liberty Alliance Project (www.projectliberty.org) is an alliance of more than 130 technology and consumer organizations formed to develop and deploy open, federated network identification specifications that support all current and emerging network devices in the digital economy. Federated identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
About Daon Daon, the identity management company designs, develops and markets biometric identity management and authentication solutions. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. DaonEngine is the most secure, scalable and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. ( 24/7/365) biometric authentication See biometrics. solution in the marketplace today. Designed to address market demands for enhanced security and accountability the company offers enterprises a unique and integrated approach to biometric authentication. Daon's solutions integrate with existing security systems such as PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of , smart cards and other PIN/password based systems to provide a heightened level of security and non-repudiation, and reduced risk of fraud. DaonEngine forms the central part of a unique biometric identity management solution that manages the full biometric authentication lifecycle including capture, data management, assertion, protection and issuance. Daon partners with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Tivoli, and Documentum. Daon is based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , with facilities in Dublin and London. For more information, please visit www.daon.com or call Maria Di Masi, Euro RSCG Middleberg, (212) 699-2734; maria.dimasi@eurorscg.com. |
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