New palm-based identity service for
organizations improves security of physical spaces and digital
assets, reduces operational costs, and adds convenience for users
while protecting personal data
Boon Edam, IHG Hotels and Resorts, Paznic, and
KONE among customers and partners using Amazon One Enterprise
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced Amazon One
Enterprise, a palm-based identity service for comprehensive and
easy-to-use authentication that improves organizational security
and helps prevent costly security breaches. The new service enables
organizations to provide a fast, convenient, and contactless
experience for employees and other authorized users to gain access
to physical locations (e.g., data centers, office and residential
buildings, airports, hotels and resorts, and educational
institutions), as well as digital assets such as restricted
software resources (e.g., financial data and HR records). Amazon
One Enterprise eliminates operational overhead associated with the
management of traditional enterprise authentication methods, like
badges and PINs. IT and security administrators can easily install
the Amazon One devices and manage users, devices, and software
updates in the AWS Management Console. To learn more about Amazon
One Enterprise, visit aws.amazon.com/one-enterprise.
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Amazon One Enterprise is a palm-based
identity service that provides highly accurate and secure
enterprise access control. It delivers a fast, convenient, and
contactless experience for employees to simply use their palm to
access physical spaces and digital assets while protecting user
privacy. (Photo: Business Wire)
Today, organizations authenticate employees and other authorized
individuals to access buildings and software resources through
physical means like badges and fobs, or digital methods like PINs
and passwords. However, these traditional methods share common
security vulnerabilities. Badges and fobs can be lost, shared,
cloned, or stolen, while PINs and passwords are easily forgotten,
guessable, or shared. Many traditional forms of authentication also
require manual verification and time-intensive credential
management, along with the cost of producing physical IDs. For
employees, forgetting or replacing badges, PINs, and passwords can
lead to frustration, wasted time, and lower productivity.
Organizations have tried to solve these challenges through
biometric-based solutions like iris scanning and fingerprint
recognition, but these solutions are not always accurate. Customers
also want solutions that help break silos in the implementation and
management of user authentication. For example, an organization
might use badges to access buildings, but passwords to access
software resources and digital assets. This requires administrators
to manage multiple authentication methods without full visibility
into all authorized access across the organization. IT and security
administrators want an easy and centralized view of authentications
(e.g., who accesses a location or software resource at what time),
and to easily monitor device usage and manage software updates.
Amazon One Enterprise is a new, fully managed service that
provides highly accurate and secure enterprise access control
through an easy-to-use biometric identification device. Security is
built into every stage of the service, from multi-layered security
controls in the Amazon One device to protection of data in transit
and in the cloud. Amazon One Enterprise combines palm and vein
imagery for biometric matching and delivers an accuracy rate of
99.9999%, which exceeds the accuracy of other biometric
alternatives—even more accurate than scanning two irises. The new
service’s palm-recognition technology uses advanced artificial
intelligence and machine learning to create a palm signature that
is associated with identification credentials like a badge,
employee ID, or PIN. The palm signature is a unique numerical
vector created from the user’s palm image that cannot be replicated
or used for impersonation. To implement Amazon One Enterprise, IT
and security administrators can easily install Amazon One devices
on-site and activate them in the AWS Management Console.
Administrators can also manage all aspects of user authentications
in the console, including monitoring the status of installed
devices, managing software updates, and getting analytics on user
enrollment and usage, while reducing the amount of time and
overhead involved in the manual verification of credentials.
Additionally, with employees using their palms for authentication,
customers eliminate much of the cost associated with buying fobs,
and printing, issuing, and managing badges and other IDs. Amazon
One Enterprise supports industry standard access-control protocols
such as Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) and Wiegand.
“Amazon One Enterprise’s palm recognition technology is designed
to deliver a highly accurate identification service that increases
an organization’s overall security, while offering seamless
authentication management with lower operational overhead,” said
Dilip Kumar, vice president of AWS Applications. “With Amazon One
Enterprise, security administrators also have a centralized view of
all user authentications across the organization, taking the stress
out of managing multiple access control solutions. Businesses
appreciate the privacy and convenience for their users, who can
access physical locations and software assets with just a hover of
their palm.”
Amazon One Enterprise delivers new levels of convenience for
employees. It replaces the need for multiple authentication
methods, and employees can use their palm to access physical spaces
and digital assets. To begin, a user can enroll by hovering their
palm over an Amazon One enrollment device and associating their
palm with their organization’s preferred ID—such as badges, PINs,
and passwords—and this can be done in less than a minute. After
enrollment, users access physical locations simply by hovering
their palm over an Amazon One device attached to common physical
access control systems for uses such as unlocking doors, entry
gates, and other barriers. When connected to computers or other
enterprise systems, Amazon One Enterprise authenticates users for
access to web applications and software. Protecting the privacy of
these users is one of the foundational elements of Amazon One
Enterprise. The new service is designed to ensure palm images, user
credentials, and other metadata are immediately encrypted, using
industry leading encryption technology, and sent to a dedicated
Amazon One Enterprise service account in the AWS Cloud, with all of
the security and isolation features of AWS. To further enhance
privacy, each user’s palm data is encrypted using a unique key.
When employees leave the organization or decide to unenroll, they
can conveniently delete their palm data by choosing the Unenroll
option on the Amazon One device, or an IT administrator can
unenroll them through the AWS Management Console.
Amazon One Enterprise is available in preview in the U.S.
Boon Edam is a leading manufacturer of revolving doors, security
doors, and security turnstiles for customers across the globe. “Our
mission at Boon Edam is to protect what matters most to our
customers by creating an ideal secured entry solution,” said
Patrick Nora, president, Boon Edam Americas. “With Amazon One
Enterprise, we can offer authorized entrances using innovative palm
biometric technology that raises our security bar and delivers a
convenient workplace experience. Our customers can prevent
unauthorized entry, reduce the time spent monitoring access, and
keep traffic moving smoothly.”
IHG Hotels & Resorts is a global hospitality company with
over 6,000 hotels in more than 100 countries. “We are excited to
work with Amazon One Enterprise for a more secure, efficient way to
manage authentication and access our systems,” said Nick Krieble,
global head of Identity and Access Management, IHG. “With Amazon
One Enterprise, our goal is to offer employees a new and convenient
way to identify themselves and gain access to our software systems
by hovering their palm over the Amazon One device. This approach
will streamline the way we authenticate, give staff access to the
tools they need, and make access easier than ever for them.”
Paznic is a security company that specializes in technology that
simplifies and modernizes the way financial institutions manage
access control and safety deposit boxes. “Our goal at Paznic is to
deliver solutions to meet the demands of financial institutions and
high security environments that hold important and valuable
assets,“ said Jonathan Curelar, CEO, Paznic. “Amazon One Enterprise
will help us ensure only authorized individuals can gain room entry
and safety deposit box access without the use of pins and
passcodes. We look forward to launching Amazon One Enterprise
across our locations to improve our safety deposit box experience
and deliver the highest level of security and satisfaction to our
customers.”
AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure is the most secure, extensive,
and reliable cloud, offering more than 240 fully featured services
from data centers in 102 Availability Zones within 32 geographic
regions. “Amazon One Enterprise raises our security bar while
delivering a convenient experience for our workforce,” said Kevin
Harris, director of Global Security for AWS Data Centers. “Legacy
radio frequency identification systems have inherent
vulnerabilities and require additional manual verifications at
checkpoints. With Amazon One Enterprise, we can provide secure
access to authorized personnel without extra verification, while
simplifying the authentication process and reducing the risk of
physical breaches. We look forward to expanding Amazon One
Enterprise across all our locations.”
KONE is a leading provider of elevators and escalators, making
people’s journeys safe, convenient, and reliable in taller, smarter
buildings. “We are integrating Amazon One Enterprise into our
People Flow Solutions, so we can offer customers a more secure and
reliable option for building entry and access,” said Steve
Gonzalez, senior vice president, New Building Solutions, Americas.
“We are excited to work with Amazon One Enterprise to deliver
cutting-edge solutions designed to ensure smooth, efficient, and
secure flows of people into, through, and out of all types of
buildings.”
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their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn
more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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