Daon White Papers

Identity Management
Large-Scale Identity Management
This paper looks at some of the issues associated with deployment of such biometric identity management systems on a large scale. Too often, vendors and organizations alike take a short term view of the problem and fail to address real world concerns such as scalability, reliability, security, individual privacy and integration with legacy.
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Biometrics and PKI
Biometrics and PKI based digital signatures
Public Key Infrastructure (commonly known as PKI) is a long established and well-known method for providing authentication and digital signatures solutions to electronic business problems.

In this short paper, we outline how the "traditional PKI" with its complex infrastructure is no longer necessary and a more streamlined and cost effective approach can be taken to the problem. This approach will reduce costs, increase security and will also enable PKI to live up to its business promise. We outline how the use of biometrics, in conjunction with PKI, can deliver on the real benefits that PKI was intended originally to achieve.
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Privacy
Biometrics: Protecting Your Privacy and Identity
Despite the multitude of academic papers and legal jurisprudence devoted to the subject, the concept of privacy remains difficult to define. Privacy connotes a number of varied yet interconnected interests. Many learned legal and academic authorities have attempted to encapsulate the essence of the concept in pithy phrases. Amongst such definitions are "the right to be left alone," "the right to exercise control over information about oneself" and "the ability to control the use and disclosure of one's personal information".
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e-Signatures
Biometric Authentication & Digital Signatures for the Pharmaceutical Industry
As pharma is a tightly regulated industry, there is a need to properly authenticate people so as to control access to systems and provide audit trail. There is also a need to authenticate people to allow them to electronically sign off on processes. The need for authentication exists throughout the value chain - from molecule to mouth. This document examines the nature of this requirement and explains how Daon's product meets that need.
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