Government agencies are implementing large-scale biometric

technologies and systems not only for criminal or national

security purposes but also to ensure the identity confidence

of individuals with whom they interact or encounter within

their business operations. Biometric technologies provide

the most efficient means to uniquely identify a person and

enhance the identity confidence within an organization’s

decision making process. The technology has now matured

to the point where it is being relied upon by commercial

and government organizations alike to mitigate the risks

associated with personal identification. Just as important,

the public has become increasingly accepting of biometrics

technologies and systems, recognizing their value in

preventing identify fraud.

These technologies have typically been implemented within

the rigid confines of solutions whose value is locked to a

particular organization, purpose or even a specific use-case.

Such a lack of flexibility constrains the potential value of

these systems and greatly increases the cost of future

adoption. The next generation of biometric systems needs

to be built for agility, to facilitate rapid and cost effective

adaptability to meet the expanding demands of new or

differing purposes and shifting mission requirements.

Dramatically Expanding Use of BiometricsHistorically, biometric technologies and systems were used

primarily in the criminal justice processes to identify

criminals, solve crimes, or conduct background

investigations. Shortly after 9/11, this use expanded to

national security purposes including immigration and border

management. In recent years biometric technologies and

systems have expanded into new areas of government. By

enhancing identity confidence through use of biometric

systems, a government organization achieves significant

benefits in line with their goals such as enhancing security,

reducing or eliminating identity fraud, improving facilitation

or convenience of services, increasing process integrity,

protecting privacy, and reducing costs. Examples of these

new areas and purposes are displayed below.

Biometric Systems: Adaptability Vital toFuture Success

The use of biometric technologies and systems will continue

to emerge and purposes will expand since protection

against identity fraud remains a major objective for many

organizations. These biometric technologies and systems

must be adaptable and flexible to meet the demands of the

dramatically growing and shifting mission needs, and they

must do so in a manner that can be rapidly deployable and

is cost effective.

The key to achieving such adaptable and flexible biometric

technologies and systems is through the use of a scalable,

open architecture adhering to industry standards. Example

benefits of this approach include the following:

• Meet differing mission requirements such as military

operations, national security, criminal justice,

immigration/border management, national identity

programs, facilitated citizen services or benefits within an

integrated solution

• Rapidly augment existing capabilities with new or enhanced

biometric technologies, (e.g. multi-factor fusion, vein

geometry or DNA) to continually improve performance

while remaining cost effective

• Assure sufficient scalability such that significant

increases in the number of biometric enrollments

or matches do not adversely impact performance

• Enable the timely revision or insertion of new workflows

to address new or rapidly changing business

process requirements

• Meet or exceed challenging performance service levels

while overcoming any constraints that may adversely

impact performance

• Ensure interoperability and rapid integration with other

national or international biometric systems to facilitate

international cooperation and information sharing

Growing Public Acceptance of BiometricsRather than view biometrics as an invasion of privacy, citizens

are coming to realize that biometrics offers perhaps the best

means of protecting their personal identities.

According to the Unisys Security Index

(www.unisyssecurityindex.com), a regular barometer of

consumer and citizen attitudes to security that Unisys

conducts in a range of countries worldwide, consumers are

consistently more concerned about the risk of identity theft

and financial fraud than they are about any other security

issue surveyed, including their own personal safety. The

results of the Unisys Security Index published in February

2011 show 70 percent of Americans are seriously concerned

about identity theft – a significant increase from 57 percent

in April 2010. Identity theft is the leading area of concern in

the U.S. and second largest concern globally across the

countries surveyed.

Biometric Program/Uses Benefit

National Identity Programs such as Mexico, Angola, and India Eliminates identity fraud in public benefits, protects privacy,increases process integrity and improves facilitation of services

U.S. border crossing programs for low risk, frequent travelers Enhances security, speeds processes, facilitates low risktravel and potentially reduces operating costs

Physical access control to secure government facilities orsecure areas

Enhances security while facilitating facility access

Managing inmate identities at criminal detention facilities Ensure inmate identities throughout the criminal justiceprocess, reduces identity fraud and increases processintegrity to increase safety and reduce costs

Single sign-on to information technology systems replacingor enhancing numerous user names and passwords

Increases security, eliminates identity fraud, increases processintegrity, facilitates services, and reduces operating costs

Mobile devices used by U.S. military forces to rapidlydetermine if a subject is an adversary or represents a securityrisk based on past encounters and other available intelligence

Increases military safety posture and enhances nationalsecurity

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At the same time, the Index has shown that consumers are

becoming significantly more accepting of biometrics. In April

2010, the majority of respondents said they would be willing

to submit to identity checks using biometric data such as

iris scans or fingerprints to enhance their personal security

and convenience when traveling by air, with the highest

percentage in the UK and Australia (91 percent and 85

percent respectively).

Increasingly, governments will use biometric technologies

and systems in differing business operations such as

facilitated services or enhanced benefits. Current biometric

systems supporting national security or criminal justice

missions are not easily adaptable to support these

expanded missions.

Evolving Threats, Adaptive Solutions - UnisysAt Unisys, we deliver flexible and adaptable biometric

systems to meet or exceed the expanding demands and

shifting mission needs of our customers. With a proven

track record of more than 25 years of delivering biometric

technology innovation and large-scale biometric systems,

Unisys offers the combined strength of an enterprise-class

software and systems developer with deep biometrics

and identity management subject matter expertise coupled

with a deep appreciation for the social, cultural, geographic

and business process differences specific to each

customer implementation.

We have invested our own research and development capital

into delivering a service-oriented, component-based, reusable,

secure framework providing a flexible and adaptable platform

for implementing repeatable state-of-the-art biometric systems

called Library of Electronic Identity Artifacts (LEIDA). The LEIDA

framework delivers significant benefits:

• Entire Life Cycle—Integrates any number of distinct

modules for the entire identity management life cycle

from biometric collection, enrollment, identification,

verification, storage, expert examination, results,

document production and document authentication.

• Multi-Modal—Integrates any combination of fingerprint,

face, iris, and signature collection and fused or single

modality matching for identification (1:N), verification

(1:1), and watch lists. It is easily adaptable for other

biometric modalities.

• Vendor Agnostic—Architected for plug-and-play of

different vendors without changes to code enabling

easy adaptation of any preferred COTS hardware or

software vendors.

• Scalability and Flexibility—Employs a scalable and

repeatable SOA-based architecture with gallery-sized

implementations designed to exceed 110 million and

is fully tested in field deployments to easily scale to

more than 250,000 biometric enrollments per day.

• Speed to Capability—Developed and documented

reusable software components to provide an adaptable

platform for delivering biometric solutions in much less

time than custom solutions.

As a leading provider to U.S. and foreign governments,

Unisys has been instrumental in the implementation and

integration of cutting edge biometric technologies and

systems adhering to industry standards to enhance identity

confidence across the missions of homeland and border

security, criminal justice and law enforcement, and facilitation

in citizen services and benefits.

• Federal Bureau of Investigation—Successful re-architecting

and modernization of the Combined DNA Indexing System

(CODIS) that exceeded performance goals.

• Transportation Security Administration—Delivered

advanced biometric technology pilot programs for access

control and air cargo integrity at dozens of U.S. airports.

• US-VISIT Program—Implementation of mobile and kiosk

solutions for outbound immigration controls at U.S. airports

and seaports.

• Mexico National ID—Successfully integrated, in record

time, the world’s largest multi-factor matching system

(iris, face and fingerprint) using the Unisys-proven

LEIDA framework.

• Angola National ID—Nationwide system with secure

identity credential and biometric solutions rapidly

deployed using LEIDA framework including mobile

enrollment in harsh and austere environments.

• Australia Department of Immigration and Citizenship—

National Biometrics for Border Control Program captures,

matches and stores facial images and fingerprints for

immigration, citizenship and border processing using the

LEIDA framework.

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For more information, visit www.unisys.com or www.unisys.com/biometrics or contact:

Troy Potter, VP, Identity Solutions, Federal Systems, 703.439.5343,

troy.potter@unisys.com

Terry Hartmann, VP, Security Solutions & Portfolio Management, 267.475.7618,

terry.hartmann@unisys.com

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In SummaryAs more and more government programs rely on large-scale biometric technologies and

systems to increase identity confidence with individuals with whom they interact or encounter

and the public acceptance for biometrics continues to grow, the systems must be adaptable

to rapidly meet new or changing requirements in a cost effective means to be successful in

the future. Unisys is recognized globally as an industry leader in the design, development,

rapid deployment and operation of large-scale biometric technologies and systems with

the proven capability to continually adapt to meet differing mission needs and evolving

requirements in the most cost effective manner.

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