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Large Scale Biometric Management:A Centralized Policy-Based Approach to Reducing Organizational Identity Chaos |
Information Systems Control Journal November, 2003
With rising security and fraud issues in day-to-day operations, every organization is looking to increase the levels of accountability and security among its employees, partners and customers. This is true not only in the general enterprise, where employees need secure access to their desktops, but also in airports, law enforcement and utilities, where reliable employee credentialing is critical in securing physical and logical access to resources and facilities.
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Media Mogul Launches Trusted Traveler Company |
ID Newswire, October 29th, 2003
Swipe a card, scan a thumbprint and cruise through airport security. That's the vision of a registered traveler program. The theory is that travelers, especially those who travel often, will pay a fee and voluntarily submit to a background check in order to get through airport security lines more quickly.
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Daon Opens Washington Office |
ID Newswire, October 15th, 2003
Daon, a provider of biometric identity management software, announced last week the opening of an office in Washington and the appointment of Jim Byrne as senior vice president responsible for the company's U.S. government business.
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Protecting Your Privacy and Identity |
Public Venue Security,
October 2 2003
By Oliver Tattan, CEO of Daon
Maintaining a healthy balance of privacy and stringent enterprise security standards without tipping the scale in either direction has been a sensitive and long-lasting struggle among security vendors and privacy advocate groups.
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Does
the UK need a national biometric ID system? |
ElectricNews.net,
September 1 2003
Oliver Tattan, CEO of biometric identity management company
Daon:
"I welcome the initiative by the Home Office to use biometrics
for visas. Solutions using biometrics are secure and foolproof while
maintaining privacy. "
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IBM Ireland implements Daon's physical and logical access control solution
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ElectricNews.net,
June 25 2003
Daon, a provider of biometric identity management solutions, announced
that IBM Ireland is implementing its physical and logical access
control solution at its Business Recovery Service Centre in Mulhuddart,
Dublin. The product to be used, DaonEnter, is a secure access control
system which is designed to protect access to secure areas.
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Biometrics: Beyond Hype and Hysteria
Written by Oliver Tattan, CEO of Daon |
FindBiometrics.com
Although the September 11 terrorist attacks focused the spotlight on technologies that recognize irises, facial features, fingerprints and voice, the heightened focus on security is not translating into boom sales of biometrics products.
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Daon targets US homeland security |
Irish Independent, April 17, 2003
Billionaire financier Dermot Desmond's biometric authentication company Daon's recent announcement of a strategic alliance with Siebel Systems places it in a strong position to bid for a number of key US government homeland security contracts.
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Siebel,
Daon team on homeland security |
Aviation
Week's Homeland Security & Defense, April 9, 2003
Siebel Systems of San Mateo, Calif., and Daon of New York City are forming an alliance to provide biometric ID information solutions for federal border management agencies, the companies said April 8.
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EDC
promises smoother inspections, improved operating efficiencies
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The Food and Drug Letter, March 14, 2003
'...That’s the same thing that happened to biometrics and
its application to EDC, said Daon CEO Oliver Tattan. Many
vendors either over-promised or didn’t understand the
technology. In some cases, vendors were offering “biometric”
security solutions that provided no real security, Tattan
said...'
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Some
Workers Wary About Giving Fingerprints To Employers
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ID
Newswire, March 5, 2003
'...Protecting worker privacy has also been touted as a benefit
of biometrics at London City Airport, where a fingerprint
system has been installed for access to secure areas and computer
networks, says Oliver Tattan, CEO of Daon, the New York-based
technology provider for the project...'
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Identity
Crisis
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EuroBusiness,
March 2003
'... The United States Immigration and and Naturalization
Service (INS)... is planning to base American national security
on biometric technology... biometric company Daon , whose
chief executive Oliver Tattan believes [this] biometric security
network will become a reality as soon as the question of identity
management can be dealt with by the [INS].'
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Using
Biometrics for Airport Security
By Oliver Tattan, Daon CEO |
Insurance
Day, February 25 2003
Over the past year the dynamics of airport security have changed
dramatically.
From post-September 11 imperatives to international legislation
calling for improved employee and passenger screening, the
call has been clear airport personnel must step up and take
proactive measures to enhance security...
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NIST
Report supports biometrics technology to boost security
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Part
11 Compliance Report, February 19 2003
...Daon rolled out its biometrics-based DaonSign digital signature software
for testing with five drug firms to see how the system performs in a number of different
scenarios... DaonSign has not had a single failure
where anyone broke into the system or was incorrectly rejected...
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Daon wins prestigious IBM Beacon Award
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CRN,
February 18 2003
At the Fourth Annual Beacon Award Ceremony, Daon received a Distinguished
Achievement Award in recognition of Daon's excellent performance in
Europe/Middle East/Africa. The Awards, honoring 16 IBM Business Partners
from around the world for outstanding achievement, exemplify the best
qualities found in an IBM Developer Business Partner.
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Biometrics in Signatures
By Oliver Tattan, Daon CEO
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Loss Prevention & Security Journal, February 4, 2003
"Employees have been playing the secret password game for years and, unfortunately, enterprises across a wide variety of industries have been paying the price. With stolen or borrowed passwords leading to most of today's enterprise security scams, companies of all sizes have begun migrating to biometrics or e-signatures to authenticate the login process and protect their data."
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Can the Security Industry Provide a Viable Alternative to the National ID Card?
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Ray Bernard
Consulting Services, January 30, 2003
...Oliver Tattan, CEO of Daon, said, "We have architected our solution so it is impossible to steal the biometric identity data. There are no super-user privileges, and system administrators cannot tamper with your identity. They can only change your rights or authorizations. Identity templates are encrypted in military-grade, hardware-security formats. It can't be got at. The only way your identity can be pulled out of the database and asserted to an application is by you actually being there and, for example, putting your finger on a device."
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IBM, Daon Offer Clinical Trials Better Data Security
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Bio-IT World News, January 13, 2003
With the health of millions of patients on the line, the FDA has legitimate concerns about whether a doctor actually initialized the electronic version of a particular medical report - or if it was, say, a janitor.
To address that, IBM Corp. and a company specializing in biometric security, Daon, are collaborating to provide biometric security in clinical trials.
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