Interest Grows in BIO-key’s Multifactor Biometric Election Security Capabilities as Additional Florida Counties Adopt the S...
September 30 2019 - 8:07AM
BIO-key International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKYI), an innovative provider
of biometric authentication and security solutions, today announced
two additional County Election Boards in Florida have selected
BIO-key solutions to enhance the security of their identification
and authentication process for staff members and volunteers
involved in managing the voting process. The Election Boards are
acting to enhance security for the upcoming 2019 regional elections
and the 2020 presidential election.
Florida is a leader in addressing election
cybersecurity issues head on by implementing BIO-key’s strong
biometric authentication solution. Brevard and Collier County were
first onboard with BIO-key in October last year, and now additional
Florida counties are following suit as BIO-key begins to receive
election security inquiries from across the nation.
BIO-key’s election security solution is built
around its ID Director for Windows software, which integrates with
Microsoft’s Active Directory and manages access to networked
resources. The combined solution delivers strong biometric
multi-factor authentication across an entire organization. ID
Director for Windows is compatible with a variety of complex
fingerprint readers qualified by Microsoft to support the biometric
sign-in platform included in Windows 10. Some Election Boards have
chosen to use BIO-key’s PIV-Pro, a FIPS compliant fingerprint
scanner, ideal for highly regulated industries, as well as its
EcoID fingerprint scanner.
The deployments are being supported by
increasing U.S. Government funding available for election security
initiatives. Last March, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of
2018 created the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Election Security
Fund, providing $380 million of Federal funding to improve states’
administration of Federal elections. More recently, the Financial
Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations Bill was
amended by the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide $250M in
additional funding for county and state election boards to upgrade
technology, improve cybersecurity and help prevent future
cyberattacks.
“BIO-key has a long-standing track record of
providing strong biometric security solutions for government
clients,” stated Mike DePasquale, Chairman & CEO, BIO-key. “Our
technology has consistently met or exceeded the needs and
expectations of customers in global law enforcement, the U.S.
Federal government and foreign national government agencies. We are
extremely proud to be extending our work to securing state and
Federal election data and anticipate further growth in this area.
It is vital for the country to maintain the integrity of our
election process, which has become increasingly reliant on
computers and the Internet, despite the inherent cyber risks.”
About BIO-key International, Inc.
(www.bio-key.com)BIO-key is
revolutionizing authentication with biometric solutions that enable
convenient and secure access to information and high-stakes
transactions. We offer alternatives to passwords, PINs, tokens, and
cards to make it easy for enterprises and consumers to secure their
devices as well as information in the cloud. Our premium finger
scanning devices offer market-leading quality, performance and
price. BIO-key also brings the power and ease of use of biometric
technology to its TouchLock line of biometric and Bluetooth enabled
padlocks – providing even more ways to BIO-key your world!
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other than statements of historical facts are "forward-looking
statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995 (the "Act"). The words "estimate," "project,"
"intends," "expects," "anticipates," "believes" and similar
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Such forward-looking statements are made based on management's
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of the Act. These statements are not guarantees of future
performance or events and are subject to risks and uncertainties
that may cause actual results to differ materially from those
included within or implied by such forward-looking statements.
These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, our
ability to develop new products and evolve existing ones, customer
and market acceptance of biometric solutions generally and our
specific offerings, our ability to expand sales within existing
customer relationships, our ability to raise additional capital,
and our ability to attract and retain key personnel. For a more
complete description of these and other risk factors that may
affect the future performance of BIO-key International, Inc., see
"Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2018 and its other filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which
speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no
obligation to disclose any revision to these forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date
made.
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