BIO-key®International, Inc. has selected and awarded BIO-key a new $800,000 order, leveraging a previously announced three-year purchasing agreement. The defense ministry is accelerating its deployment of BIO-key biometric authentication to secure, yet simplify, access to its most critical information systems. This order, along with portions of earlier $340k and $150K orders received in Q3?23, is expected to be recognized during Q4?23. The defense ministry continues to expand its BIO-key user authentication deployment into new programs and user scenarios, delivering convenient phoneless, tokenless, and passwordless authentication access to digital services for over 30,000 users.

BIO-key expects that expansion of the programs using its solution to additional defense ministry personnel will result in other awards in future periods. BIO-key?s secure biometric authentication platform has been integrated with the ministry?s virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) capabilities to allow secure VDI-optimized biometric authentication without requiring phones or tokens. BIO-key has worked closely with the ministry?s cybersecurity team to integrate state-of-the-art, cloud-enabled biometric authentication with its authentication federation platform to deliver advanced and secure biometric access to systems and applications across organizational boundaries.

Because BIO-key credentials are the individuals themselves, access cannot be shared, delegated, phished, or forgotten.