Daon Executive Receives ANSI Leadership Award

Reston, VA, August. 5, 2008 - Daon, a leading provider of identity assurance software announced today that the company’s Vice President of Standards and Technology, Cathy Tilton has been named as a recipient of the 2008 Leadership and Service Awards given by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

Tilton will receive the Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal, which recognizes outstanding efforts to foster cooperation among the bodies involved in global IT standardization. She is very active in the development of national and international biometric standards, currently serving as the US head of delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 subcommittee on biometrics. Tilton also chairs the BioAPI Consortium, is the international representative for INCITS M1 technical committee on biometrics, and chairs the M1 Ad Hoc Group on Biometrics in e-Authentication. She is the technical editor of the BioAPI within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 WG2 as well as a new project there called "BioAPI Lite." She currently chairs the BIAS Integration technical committee at OASIS.

Tilton has more than 25 years of engineering and management experience, including over 14 years in the biometrics industry. She has lead or been involved in the design, development, and deployment of numerous biometric systems in both the commercial and government domains. These include the US-VISIT program, the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC), and in a previous life, IAFIS. She is an active participant in the Registered Traveler Interoperability Consortium (RTIC) and contributed to the interoperability specifications for this program. Past work also included several contracts prototyping the use of biometrics with the Department of Defense’s CAC card. She has a BS in nuclear engineering from Mississippi State and an MS in systems engineering from Virginia Tech.

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 multi-modal authentication infrastructure, DaonEngine, integrates seamlessly with IT platforms and applications and manages the identity life-cycle of small and large populations. Daon is the recipient of the 2008 Frost and Sullivan award for Product Line Strategy Leadership. Privately held, Daon’s offices are located in Washington DC, Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin.

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

About ANSI

ANSI is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance U.S. global competitiveness and the American quality of life by promoting, facilitating, and safeguarding the integrity of the voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. Its membership is comprised of businesses, professional societies and trade associations, standards developers, government agencies, and consumer and labor organizations.

The Institute represents the diverse interests of more than 125,000 companies and organizations and 3.5 million professionals worldwide. The Institute is the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and, via the U.S. National Committee, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and is a U.S. representative to the International Accreditation Forum (IAF). ANSI currently has offices in New York City and Washington, DC.

For further information about ANSI, please visit: http://www.ansi.org

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