SAN ANTONIO, TX and HERNDON, VA  – NextgenID, the global leader in Biometric Intelligence Solutions, today announced that the State of West Virginia has chosen the company’s Multi-modal Biometric Enrollment (MBE) KIOSK to expedite the secure enterprise enrollment of employees, contractors and citizens state-wide, as part of the new West Virginiaentity Management Service.  The service, which will be directed by the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, will transition state business processes, in structured phases, to a secure system using trusted digitalentity cards across all counties and municipalities in West Virginia.

The Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is the primary state agency charged with coordinating the activities of all organizations for homeland security and ER Management within the state.  It maintains liaison and cooperates with homeland security, emergency management, emergency service, civil defense agencies and first-responder type organizations from other states and across the US federal government.

Prime contractor TecSec Services, Incorporated, has been awarded the services contract to produce and establish a uniqueentity at a very high level of assurance, that can provision and leverage smart credential tokens that implement 2 and 3 factor authentication, contain secure digital attribute containers, encryption and digital signature functionality, provisioned to a specificentity.  Theentity will then be applied to many (almost infinite) state-wide process applications, without the necessity of back end attribute servers, centralized key management, the issuance of any otherentity token, or any otherentity management system.

When implemented, the system will enable an environment where personallyentifiable data will be made unreadable and unusable to unauthorized personnel in all applications and data at rest and in transit will be encrypted with documents digitally signed to maximize privacy.  The system will also enable an infrastructure that eliminates the need for backend attribute server connectivity to streamline and migrate state based transactions from paper or server based to the use of a true digital infrastructure to reduce cost and provide convenience to the citizens of West Virginia.

The NextgenID MBE KIOSK, shown right, is designed to be operated free standing in any chosen enrollment location and operate in multiple modalities ranging from self-service, remote operator administration and local operator supervised with complete maintenance support.  It is the most flexible, multi-application, multi-customer shared biometric enrollment unit on the market.  It is designed to accommodate a wide-range of custom configurations without impacting the core functionality necessary for accurate enrollment andentification.  The MBE KIOSK complies with the Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA) standards and easily adjusts to enroll persons of all heights.  It is built with the most stringent KIOSK product standards compliance in the industry.

The MBE KIOSK delivers completeentity enrollment in under 5 minutes and utilizes a secure web-portal and central repository for enrollment records, including enrollment metrics aggregation and automated biometric lookout and fraud (duplicate) audits.  This includes a pre-enrollment web portal for sponsorship organization processing and enrollment application software that is easy to learn and manage.

With the MBE KIOSK in place, government organization of all sizes can streamline unlimited smart card enrollments across the enterprise, manage user transactions and generate real time reports for all credential card types including PIV, PIV-I, CIV, CAC, TWIC and FRAC.

About NextgenID® NextgenID is a biometric technology company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas with operations in Washington, DC, and Ottawa, Canada. NextgenID® develops, delivers and maintains next-generation biometric intelligence solutions designed to maximize security andentity for governments, corporations and critical infrastructures. Based on the innovative research, biometric engineering development and technology integration performed daily at NextgenID® LABS, NextgenID® Biometric Intelligence Solutions deliver the industry's most accurate, rapid and cost-effective face image capture, multi-biometric enrollment,entity verification, face image based fraud detection, biometric access control and lookout systems available anywhere in the world today.  For more information visit www.nextgenid.com.

About TecSec® TecSec Incorporated, founded in 1990, is a privately heldentity technology company located just outside Washington, DC.  TecSec provides software and hardware products based upon the company’s 7th generation, standards-based Constructive Key Management (CKM) technology, leveraging its large library of patents and intellectual property.  TecSec provides:  Information Assurance products for the network, mobile devices, physical access and desktop; information management and dynamic, assured information sharing through cryptographically enforced Role Based Access Control (RBAC); and the highest levels of customer service and product support.  For more information visit www.tecsec.com, call 571-299-4000 or e-mail sales@tecsec.com

For more information, contact: NextgenID Biometric Intelligence Solutions Phone: 210.530.9991 Email: sales@nextgenid.com