Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE), a leading global provider of biometrics software and solutions, today announced that it has been recognized by Enterprise Security Magazine as a Top Ten Multifactor Authentication Solution Provider of 2018. Biometric authentication is increasingly seen as the most promising path to reduce reliance on passwords for authentication, particularly where they are used to protect an organization's most sensitive data and assets.
"Passwords are a technology conceived for the computing environment of the 1960s, long before the Internet, and every data breach adds evidence that we are overdue for a more modern approach," commented David Benini, VP of Marketing and Product at Aware. "The security, processing power, and advanced sensors of today's mobile phones make them the ideal enabling technology for more secure multifactor authentication using biometrics."
Aware Knomi™ mobile biometric authentication framework applies face, voice, and keystroke biometrics to enable multifactor authentication using a mobile device, either as an alternative to passwords or as part of a step-up authentication scheme. Step-up authentication applies an additional level of security based either on the value of the protected asset, or on an assessment of user-centric risk factors. Knomi can apply multiple biometric modalities simultaneously to boost matching and liveness detection performance with minimal impact on user experience. It can be implemented with biometric data storage and matching occurring either on the mobile device or alternatively on the server.
A digital edition of the March issue of Enterprise Security Magazine is available online, and includes an article that highlights the Knomi solution. More information about Knomi can be found on Aware's website.
Aware will demonstrate Knomi at the connect:ID Expo and Conference, taking place in Washington, DC April 30th through May 3rd.
About Aware
Aware is a leading provider of biometrics software products and development services to governments, system integrators, and solution providers globally. Our products include SDKs, software components, workstation applications, and a modular, centralized, service-oriented platform. They fulfill a broad range of functions critical to biometric authentication and search, including face, fingerprint, iris, and voice capture, sample quality assurance, data compliance, capture hardware peripheral abstraction, centralized data processing and workflow, subsystem connectivity, and biometric matching algorithms. The products apply biometrics to enable identity-centric security solutions for applications including banking and payments, border management, credentialing and access control, intelligence and defense, and law enforcement. Aware is a publicly held company (Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
