IBM Implements Daon’s Biometric Access Control System To Enhance Security in their Business Recovery Service Center

Biometric Deployment Addresses Critical Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Service Needs

Dublin, Ireland, June 24th, 2003 - Daon, a leading provider of biometric identity management solutions, today announced that IBM Ireland is implementing its physical and logical access control solution at its Business Recovery Service Centre in Mulhuddart, Dublin. This deployment is indicative of IBM’s commitment to provide enhanced security for its customers at their service centers worldwide.

Restricting access to secure areas is a continuing challenge for IBM’s Business Continuity and Recovery Services Group, as it is for most organizations. DaonEnter, a highly secure access control system which is designed to protect access to secure areas, is addressing IBM’s need to properly and cost-effectively secure and manage physical access systems, while simultaneously limiting access to property, people and information to authorized personnel only.

Secure biometric authentication enables users to securely login to systems such as Microsoft Windows with a physical characteristic such as their finger. Daon for Windows® is also helping IBM to eliminate the security risks associated with passwords, as well as costly password management overhead.

“Daon is giving IBM a competitive edge by enabling them to offer an enhanced security service to their customers, while ensuring the protection of its own physical and information assets,” said Oliver Tattan, CEO, Daon. “Our solution limits the risk of unauthorized access to secure areas and data, reinforcing accountability through a complete audit trail, while at the same time increasing operational efficiency”.

“Daon’s enterprise-class biometric technology for access control is a natural fit for IBM, enabling us to provide our customers with the highest quality of service,” said Tom Byrne, BC&RS Manager at IBM. “The Business Continuity Centre in Mulhuddart provides our clients with an enhanced offering that features demonstrable physical and logical security, which not only increases customer satisfaction, but also meets our own needs for advanced security”.

About IBM Business Continuity & Recovery Services (BC&RS)
IBM set up its Business Continuity & Recovery Services unit in 1988 as a disaster recovery service for mainframe & mid-range customers. Since then, the service has developed to provide customers with increasingly sophisticated solutions. The demand for the service has arisen because of the almost universal dependency of corporate employees on computer systems for their day-to-day work.

With over 130 clients across a range of industries, IBMs experience in supporting critical business and its access to Global Services resources uniquely positions the company to support clients who require very high specification facilities e.g. financial dealing, call centre recovery.

As part of its BC&RS, IBM offers a series of unique global continuity services, including web based offerings such as Internet Emergency Response Service, which provides monitoring of customers web sites to ensure that security loopholes are secured.

About Daon
Daon designs, develops and markets secure biometric identity management software solutions which enable federal agencies and enterprises to increase security, reduce the risk of fraud and improve cost efficiencies while protecting the privacy of individuals. The company's flagship product DaonEngine is the most secure, scalable and highly available (24/7/365) identity management infrastructure solution in the marketplace today. Unlike traditional biometric point solutions, DaonEngine integrates seamlessly with existing security systems such as PKI, smart cards, swipe cards and other PIN/password-based systems and supports multiple biometric types including finger, face, iris, voice etc. DaonEngine forms the central part of an organization's IT infrastructure which manages the full identity lifecycle including capture, data management, assertion, protection, issuance and audit trailing. Daon is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with offices in New York, Washington DC and London. For more information, please visit www.daon.com

Contacts
Maria Di Masi
Daon (Euro RSCG Middleberg)
+1 212-699-2734

Rory Caren
IBM Ireland
+353 1 815 4661