Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Daon acquires Enterprise Air assets

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Daon, a provider of identity assurance software aimed at government and commercial organizations, has acquired the Physical Security Interlock software and pertinent personnel from Enterprise Air, a New York-based provider of security technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.


The PSI software enables user’s to connect physical security systems to any administrative systems. Enterprise designed the system so that it will work with most security system products.

With PSI integrated into their own products, Daon will now be capable of distributing access and credential data from a central location to each of the access areas of a facility, applying Public Key Infrastructure into security systems and managing smart card data. Daon expects this new acquisition to help out their customers significantly by saving them both man hours and money while enhancing their access control security. [end] 

DigitalPersona announced the release of a new version of its Pro Enterprise software solution, version 5.2.

Among the aspects of the new version DigitalPersona is touting are the extensive number of factors a company utilizing the solution can use to authenticate for access to sensitive information or secured computer stations. These factors include what a user knows, such as PINs or passwords, things you have, such as smart cards, contactless identity cards or Bluetooth devices, and things you are, such as fingerprints.

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AuthenTec announced it has acquired Seattle-based network security solutions developer PeerSec Networks. Among the segments of PeerSec that is included in the acquisition are the Matrix line of device-embedded security solutions, which consists of the MatrixSSL, MatrixSSH and MatrixDTLS, and the team behind those solutions.

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StarChip and CEA-Leti have inked a partnership agreement to develop a contactless front end for smart card applications.

The partnership includes technology and know-how transfer to StarChip. With this combined experience in secure integrated circuit development and contactless technology, StarChip will roll out state-of-the-art smart card products to enable applications in transport, banking and identity.

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Auraya Systems announced the commercial release of its voice authentication solution called ArmorVox Speaker Identity System.

The solution, which was developed for system developers and call centers as either an enterprise or cloud-based solution, fuses text-independent and text-dependent voice-verification that automatically detect languages.

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DigitalPersona released a new version of its Pro Enterprise authentication device. It now contains the ability to support a number of new authentication credentials, enabling organizations to mix and match the ways in which employees securely identify themselves to Microsoft Windows and other applications.

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