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Reston, Virginia; October 20, 2009 - Daon, the award-winning global provider of identity assurance software and services, announced today that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Datacard, a world leader in secure identity and card personalization solutions. The companies will collaborate in the area of secure identification focused on the passport, national ID, government credentialing and driver’s license markets.

According to Daon’s CEO Tom Grissen, “We see this agreement with Datacard as key to our expansion around the globe. Datacard’s desire to collaborate with us is another example of the strength and credibility of Daon’s brand in the global identity assurance market, which we have earned by providing exceptional products and service to our customers.”

Datacard Group has a long history serving the market, and remains a trusted provider of innovative solutions for governments worldwide. Datacard® government solutions have been deployed in more than 325 projects in over 90 countries. Likewise, Daon’s COTS products have been selected by the world’s largest economies to secure more than 350 million identities around the globe. This agreement helps Datacard and Daon address a growing concern for governments worldwide to identify people with greater accuracy.

About Daon

Daon is a leading provider of identity assurance software products focused on meeting the needs of governments and commercial organizations worldwide. Daon supports customers and system integrators in building enterprise solutions requiring the highest level of security, performance, scalability, reliability and privacy. Daon’s COTS products are scalable, flexible and proven in the most challenging real-world environments and have been selected to secure more than 350 million identities around the globe. The Daon product suite covers every aspect of identity management from pre-enrollment and identity proofing to enrollment, multimodal capture, adjudication, credentialing and provisioning; and provides a technology agnostic approach which gives leverage to the customer.

Daon’s offices are located in Washington DC, New York, Canberra, Singapore, London and Dublin.

For further information, please visit: http://www.daon.com

About Datacard

Datacard Group is building on a 40-year heritage of innovation and customer success. Our portfolio of solutions, backed by expert service and support, enable card and secure ID programs for financial, government and other institutions worldwide. With an unmatched commitment to customer satisfaction, Datacard remains the industry’s best-selling brand of secure ID and card personalization solutions.
For further information, please visit: www.datacard.com

Contacts:

Cheryl W. Waldrup
Daon
Tel: 703-984.4040 (U.S.)
Email:cheryl.waldrup@daon.com