www.bioapi.org

The BioAPI Consortium is a group of over 50 organizations that have a common interest in promoting the growth of the biometrics market. BioAPI is dedicated to developing a specification for a standardized Application Programming Interface (API) that will be compatible with a wide range of biometric applications programs and a broad spectrum of biometrics technologies. The API description defines how application programmers and biometric solution vendors write to the common BioAPI interface. The BioAPI runtime framework will allow applications to interoperate with various biometric solutions.

www.ibia.org

The International Biometric Industry Association (IBIA) is a trade association founded in September 1998 in Washington, D.C., to advance, advocate, defend, and support the collective international interests of the biometric industry. IBIA is impartially dedicated to serve all biometric technologies in all applications.

www.itaa.org

The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) provides global public policy, business networking, and national leadership to promote the continued rapid growth of the IT industry. ITAA consists of over 325 corporate members throughout the U.S.. The Association plays the leading role in issues of IT industry concern including information security, taxes and finance policy, digital intellectual property protection, telecommunications competition, workforce and education, immigration, online privacy and consumer protection, government IT procurement, human resources and e-commerce policy. ITAA members range from the smallest IT start-ups to industry leaders in the Internet, software, IT services, ASP, digital content, systems integration, telecommunications, and enterprise solution fields. ITAA is secretariat of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance, consisting of 67 IT trade associations around the world.

www.nfc-forum.org

The NFC Forum was launched as a non-profit industry association in 2004 by leading mobile communications, semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. The Forum’s mission is to advance the use of Near Field Communication technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC technology. The Forum's 100+ global member companies currently are developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for interoperable data exchange and device-independent service delivery, device discovery, and device capability.

www.openauthentication.org

The Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH) is the industry's leading collaboration of device, platform and application companies, and end user customers of authentication technologies. OATH participants hope to foster use of strong authentication across networks, devices and applications. OATH participants work collectively to facilitate standards and build a reference architecture for open authentication while evangelizing the benefits of strong interoperable authentication in a networked world. As OATH grows, the organization is actively seeking feedback and technology contributions from end-user participants who share a common vision for open authentication technology and the products that provide this important measure of security.

www.trustedcomputinggroup.org

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is a not-for-profit organization formed to develop, define, and promote open standards for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security technologies, including hardware building blocks and software interfaces, across multiple platforms, peripherals, and devices. TCG specifications will enable more secure computing environments without compromising functional integrity, privacy, or individual rights. The primary goal is to help users protect their information assets (data, passwords, keys, etc.) from compromise due to external software attack and physical theft.

As a Contributor-level member of TCG, UPEK contributes to the development of open standards for increasing the security of computing environments.  UPEK’s biometric fingerprint security technology complements the multi-factor authentication opportunities offered by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a hardware-based solution for storing keys, passwords and digital certificates.  By combining “who you are” with “what you have” and “what you know”, UPEK TPM integration strategies enable 3-factor authentication, a higher level of security for protecting digital assets.