Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

Sun and Aware create biometric identity management platform

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Sun Microsystems, a software and technology developer responsible for developing the Java programming language, has integrated their Java System Access Manager with Biometric Services Platform from Aware, a biometric systems vendor. The new product has Sun’s identity security and management combined with fingerprint, face, and iris reading technology from Aware.

The new product is aimed at both government and private sector needs. The products functionality includes biometric authentication for web-based applications and enterprise applications, connectivity with the FBI for background checks and secure transport and archiving of biometric data. [end] 

Aware has announced that it has supplied a large European police agency, on par with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S., with its Biometric Services Platform (BioSP). BioSP, a Web-based biometric application, will serve a number of purposes for the agency including screening and converting fingerprint records from agencies such as INTERPOL and the FBI into the domestic format and providing remote police facilities with quick searchable access to biometric records.

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BIO-key International has announced it will be releasing their first biometric identification and authentication platform secure transmission of captured fingerprint data to a secure server via smart phones, laptops and desktops.

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A partnership between idOnDemand and Directory Concepts could mean the streamlining of smart card issuance for buildings, computer login, electronic signatures, VPN and encryption management.

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Ceelox has announced it has earned the “Compatible with Windows 7” due to its work with Microsoft in utilizing the Windows 7 Windows Biometric Framework, a set of components designed to better support biometric devices and built into the operating system, to create compatibility with its own offerings.

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Aware Inc. has announced it has supplied a major U.S. government agency with client and server-based software products for the personal identity verification (PIV) employee credentialing system implemented by IT services firm Jacob & Sundstrom.

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AOptix Technologies, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced that they in a partnership with fellow biometrics developer Aware have completed the integration of an AOptix iris system with Aware software.

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