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Zwipe will have a major presence at two industry events over the next ten days. The team will be meeting with customers and partners in the trusted identity industry at Trustech and the UK banking and payments community at Fintech Connect Live! Smart biometric payment solutions Starting first this week in Cannes, France, Zwipe will be present at Trustech 2017, one of the longest-running and largest trusted identity conferences in the world. Zwipe will have a stand and meeting room located at Lerins Pod 3.06 in cooperation with the Nordic Pavilion. Zwipe’s Director of PR and Marketing Ado Fazlic will be taking the Innovation Stage to talk about how great user experience will pave the way for adoption of biometric smart cards. He will also be involved in a panel debate, discussing the challenges and opportunities when looking at biometrics in payment. At Excel London, Zwipe will be launching the Biometrics Decrypted Report at Fintech Connect Live! As part of the launch, many of the report participants will be discussing the report findings in an executive briefing. The briefing will feature Zwipe’s CEO Kim Humborstad, alongside Howard Berg, Senior VP and Managing Director, Gemalto UK, Clive Bourke, President, EMEA & APAC at Daon and Alan Goode, Founder of Goode Intelligence.

Daon, in partnership with ProtechT and QPGI, the contract awardee, has been selected to provide the core biometric software infrastructure to support the roll-out of the Qatar National Identification Project Daon, a leading provider of identity software and services, announced today that it is supplying core biometric technology to the State of Qatar for the roll-out of a National Identity Smartcard card using finger, face and iris biometrics.  Daon forms part of the ProtechT and QPGI teams who were recently awarded the contract. The State of Qatar is implementing a new smart identity card, and a series of smartcard applications, as part of the Qatar National Identification Project.  The National Identity Smartcard will be issued to all citizens and residents and will become the standard identification card for the purposes of interaction with all ministries within the Government of Qatar.  The Project includes the use of finger, face and iris biometrics to provide fast and reliable verification of an individual's identity. On the ProtechT team, Daon are providing products including their core biometric infrastructure product, DaonEngine, and Finger, Face and Iris Biometric Snap-In interfaces to leading biometric matching algorithms.  These components act as the identity hub, to support cardholder biometric identification credentials and off-line and on-line ID checking. "This is a major step forward for the State of Qatar Ministry of Interior in the implementation of its e-Security Strategy.  The National Identification Project is focused on the implementation of a national system for up to a million people, leveraging multiple biometric types for multiple biometrically enabled applications including the National Identity Smartcard, the E-Passport Program, the E-Gate Program and Biometric Immigration Control Systems" commented Col.  Saleh El Kubaissi, Head of Computer Systems Department, Ministry of Interior, Qatar. "Daon was selected to be part of our team because of their unrivalled industry expertise in major biometric programmes worldwide in addition to their expert resources and innovative products and technology," commented Antoine Chamieh, COO ProtechT.  "Daon are a highly professional and committed partner of ours and have gone the extra mile in helping to ensure programme success". "We are proud to be part of the ProtechT team in supporting the State of Qatar Government with their Identification Project" commented Tom Grissen, CEO Daon.  "Daon is a world leading provider of biometric products and services providing standards based, cost effective identity solutions for large population groups to interact with multiple government agencies for multiple applications.  We have always believed that the Gulf region is of strategic importance to Daon and have built a team of technology and service experts who are focused on addressing our customers needs in the territory", added Grissen. More on Daon

The US TWIC (Transportation Worker Identification Credential) Program achieved Initial Operating Capability (IOC) in November 2004 at four sites in the states of Pennsylvania, California and Florida, with biometrically enabled smart card credentials.This groundbreaking program is a first of its kind because it represents common credentialing across a very large, diverse group of people working at land, sea and airports throughout the United States.  Daon's flexible identity assurance platform, DaonEngine, is being used by the US Department of Homeland Security in this program to deliver identity assurance across multiple physical sites, applications and systems.The Business ChallengeRecent legislation and security threats have focused attention on the potential vulnerabilities at land, sea and airports.One aspect of critical protection is the prevention of access to secure areas of the transportation infrastructure through the use of fraudulent identification and/or deception.  Security systems can be compromised and identity theft is growing at an alarming rate.  The challenge for land, sea and airports is to make them secure for both workers and the travelling public.  The ability to quickly and positively identify known individuals frees up limited security resources to focus on other potential threats.The US Government's TWIC Program is aimed at addressing the security challenges faced in the transportation industry through the use of strong identification and verification technology capable of proving the identity of employees.The TWIC ProgramThe vision for the TWIC Program was borne out of the need for a viable, system-wide, common credential for all personnel across all sectors of the transportation industry while eliminating multiple credentials.  The participants of this TWIC Program include workers from all areas of the transportation industry - seaports, airports, rail, pipeline, trucking and mass transit.  Through this credentialing system, workers can obtain unescorted physical and/or logical access to secure areas.  Employee identity verification is done through the use of a smart card containing biometric information.  This card is used to verify, beyond doubt, the identity of individuals with access to secure areas of the US transportation system.  When fully deployed, it is estimated the TWIC program will support 12 million active credentials.  Daon was a member of the BearingPoint team that was awarded the TWIC contract.Daon was a member of the BearingPoint team that was awarded the TWIC contract. "Following an in-depth assessment of the rigorous demands of the TWIC program, BearingPoint selected Daon because we were uniquely qualified to provide the core biometric infrastructure to support this critical program.  We are proud to have contributed to this effort and to have assisted BearingPoint in winning this contract."  Tom Grissen, CEO, DaonThe Business SolutionThe use of Daon's biometric identity assurance technology is enabling unescorted physical and logical access to secure areas at land, sea and airports in the US.  By utilizing an individual's unique biometric attributes, it makes it impossible for another person to tamper with, duplicate or use the credentials of a legitimate worker.  DaonEngine provides the mission critical quality of service required by the TWIC program.  Daon's product was selected by the prime contractor due to its market leading capabilities in areas such as:ScalabilityReliability and AvailabilityThroughputSecurityPrivacyFlexibilityRequirements for Employee Credentialing SolutionsStrong Identity Assurance - the capability to deliver the highest degree of accuracy and assurance for the identification and verification of employeesFlexibility and Interoperability - the ability to support a broad range of tokens or credentials and a broad range of biometric types for operations in heterogeneous environmentsRobust Operational Performance - always-available products and solutions to meet the demanding availability and performance requirements of varying operational sites, both indoor and outdoorCost Effective Implementation and Operations - product and operations support that enables all stakeholders to deliver immediate valueDelivering Value to StakeholdersDaon's identity assurance platform, DaonEngine, enables land, sea and airports to benefit from using one common, standardized infrastructure for both logical and physical access control, thus eliminating the risk of use of fraudulent or altered credentials as well as reducing total cost of ownership significantly.  The DaonEngine platform provides fast and convenient access control for authorized employees as well as solid protection against unauthorized access.  Authentication of users through DaonEngine provides a guaranteed proof of identity and delivers a comprehensive, signed audit trail of all user transactions for maximum security.Daon's infrastructure is also enabling secure mobility across the transportation sector.  By providing a common credential that allows workers to move freely throughout the transportation environment, they can be identified at any land, sea or airport location and across multiple systems and applications.Daon specializes in delivering the identity assurance platform, which is key to the success of employee credentialing programs.  Daon's technology assists governments and commercial organizations around the world in increasing security, while protecting the privacy of their employees and delivering greater user convenience.