BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Aware,
Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE), a leading global provider of biometrics
software products, solutions and services, today announced that
Marquis Software is leveraging Aware's Knomi in the authentication
of offenders in Arkansas. Through
Marquis' solution, more than 10,000 offender identities have been
authenticated with Aware's Knomi mobile biometric authentication
solution featuring face and voice liveness detection.
Marquis Software understands the critical nature of the need for
multi-factor authentication when security is paramount. As a
provider of software used in offender management, Marquis leverages
Aware's Knomi in the authentication of offenders in Arkansas. Offenders must check-in with their
parole or probation officers online, according to the terms of
their case. Knomi enables multifactor authentication with the
convenience of mobile biometrics during that check-in to ensure a
strong, difficult to repudiate, passwordless authentication. Which
means the offender can simply use their smart phone to confirm
their location in an irrefutable way—their face, their voice, their
phone, location and time.
"We are delighted to be using Aware's solution within our
eOMIS® offering," said Ben
Harrell, Director of Sales and Marketing at Marquis
Software. "In our InTouch mobile application, we must have the
highest possible security to ensure that the person checking in as
the offender is, in fact, the offender. The ability for Knomi to
give us separate scores for face and voice recognition, and a fused
score combining the two, gives us that peace of mind. Additionally,
COVID-19 has limited the capability for in-person transactions, but
Knomi has enabled us to transition from a previously required
in-person enrollment, and transform to a trusted, non-proctored
mobile enrollment capability."
Harrell continued, "We were impressed with how easy it was to
implement Knomi, too—it was only a couple of weeks from our
purchase to when we had it up and running. We're excited to have a
provider we can trust in Aware."
Aware Introduces Voice Enhancements with Release of Knomi
2.11
Aware also announced today that it has released an enhancement
to its voice authentication and speaker recognition capability
within its Knomi offering. Earlier this year, Aware combined facial
recognition with speaker recognition in its Knomi 2.6 offering,
taking the platform from one capability to a dual authentication
capability with more security and convenience.
As the digital landscape continues to evolve, and more
organizations are turning to biometrics to add identity security
while reducing friction, it's critical that technologies keep up
and evolve as well. The release of Knomi 2.11 capitalizes on
Knomi's ability to eliminate friction in the user experience when
detecting liveness for face and voice, and elevates the
dual-authentication capability of Knomi 2.6 to the exceptional
performance required by current times. Today's announcement is the
latest example of Aware's leadership in disruptive innovation:
constantly pushing the boundaries of its work.
"We are excited to build on this unique product that combines
the power of face and speaker recognition to provide a strong,
secure and easy to use passwordless solution to meet our customers'
needs," said Rob Mungovan, Aware's
chief commercial officer. "Managing digital identities without
compromising privacy or user experience is key commitment of ours,
and these voice enhancements to Knomi helps us to deliver on these
promises – especially in today's evolving threat landscape."
Knomi is a mobile biometric authentication framework that
applies a variety of biometric algorithms to enable more secure and
convenient mobile enrollment, onboarding and passwordless
authentication experience. Its web services and mobile device SDKs
work in concert to perform biometric capture, seamless liveness
detection and matching, for face and voice.
To learn more about this offender management solution, visit
Marquis Software's website.
To learn more about Knomi, visit Aware's product webpage.
About Marquis Software
Marquis Software is the
industry's leading provider of Offender Management Systems. For
over 38 years, they have pioneered the enterprise-wide automation
of corrections software. Their comprehensive electronic Offender
Management Information System (eOMIS®) offers unsurpassed solutions
for Inmate Management, Electronic Health Records, and Community
Supervision. eOMIS® has been implemented in eight state Department
of Corrections and in over 20 county jails.
About Aware
Aware is a leading provider of productized biometrics software
products, solutions and services to governments, system
integrators, and commercial organizations and solution providers
globally. Our comprehensive portfolio of biometric solutions are
based on innovative, robust products designed explicitly for ease
of integration including customer-managed and integration ready
biometric frameworks, platforms, SDK's and services. They fulfill a
broad range of functions critical to secure biometric enrollment,
authentication, identity and transactions including face,
fingerprint, iris, and voice capture modalities, sample quality
assurance, data compliance, capture hardware peripheral and system
abstraction, centralized data processing and workflow, subsystem
connectivity, and biometric matching algorithms. The products and
solutions apply biometrics to enable identity-centric security and
know-your-customer ("KYC") solutions for applications including
financial institutions, retail, banking and payments, healthcare,
border management, credentialing and access control, intelligence
and defense, and law enforcement. Aware is a publicly held company
(Nasdaq: AWRE) based in Bedford,
Massachusetts.
See Aware's website for more information about our biometrics
software products.
Safe Harbor Warning
Portions of this release contain
forward-looking statements regarding future events and are subject
to risks and uncertainties, such as our expectations regarding our
new product. Aware wishes to caution you that there are
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
the results indicated by such statements, including the risks that
(i) current and prospective customers do not purchase our new
product in the quantities that we expect and (ii) our new product
does not perform as well as we expect because of errors, defects or
bugs. We refer you to the documents Aware files from time to
time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically the
section titled Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended December 31,
2019 and other reports and filings made with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Aware and Knomi are registered trademarks of
Aware, Inc.
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