Edentifys Tom Harkins to Speak at Americas Community Bankers 2006 Annual Convention, Market Expo and Directors Forum
Posted by Terrence DeFranco on Thu, Oct 12, 2006
San Diego, Ca.
Today Edentify, Inc. (OTC BB: EDFY), a leading provider of identity management solutions, announced that its Chief Operating Officer and former MasterCard International executive, Thomas J. Harkins, will participate in a panel discussion at the 2006 Annual Convention, Market Expo & Directors' Forum held by America's Community Bankers' ("ACB") from October 15, 2006 through October 18, 2006, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. Harkins' presentation is scheduled for Monday, October 16, at 10:45 a.m.
ACB's 2006 Annual Convention will provide a powerful leadership program designed to "Inform, Inspire, Educate, Entertain" attendees. Top industry speakers will provide expert presentations, group discussions and participant round tables on commercial banking, corporate governance, transformation leadership, and other hot topics affecting businesses today. In addition, the event will feature the latest products and services for financial institutions that address these critical issues. Edentify will exhibit its identity manipulation detection technology at Booth #301.
Harkins, who has spoken at previous ACB conferences, will engage in a panel discussion titled "Phishing, Spoofing, Cyber Scams, Man-in-the-Middle, Breaches: What’s Next?" a comprehensive look at some of the new trends in cyber-fraud, how banks can minimize falling prey to such attacks, predictions on future threats, and how to respond effectively to customers and the media if a breach crisis arises. Prior to joining Edentify, Harkins spent almost two decades helping MasterCard's high-profile corporate customers find and fight fraud, data theft, and other high security risks, and now leads Edentify's business and product development efforts.
"The Internet serves as a convenient and easy tool for consumers to do their banking and make online purchases, but it also serves as a convenient and easy tool for fraudsters," says Harkins. "Cyber thieves use a variety of Internet tools to perpetrate their crimes, so it is crucial that financial institutions increase their awareness and knowledge of the varying roles the Internet can play in their continuous battle against identity theft and fraud. Speaking at this conference will not only provide an opportunity to educate attendees on matters relating to identity and cyber-fraud, but it will also bring greater visibility to some of the available detection and prevention technologies, such as Edentify's solutions, to assist financial institutions and their customers in deterring this crime."
Edentify develops and deploys technology solutions utilized in preventing identity theft and fraud. The forerunner of this technology was initially introduced in 1996, and is currently used to screen identities in the branches of large banks in the U.S.
ABOUT EDENTIFY
Edentify, Inc. (http://www.edentify.us) is one of the leading organizations dedicated to developing and deploying technology solutions utilized in preventing identity theft and fraud. Edentify has intellectual property rights to two solutions aimed at detecting and preventing identity fraud. The first is a patented information-based solution that analyzes identity information of individuals in large corporate and government databases, and is capable of detecting and scoring incidents of identity manipulation and potential fraud (Identity Quotient Index™). The second intellectual property is a unique biometric solution (technology-based solution) marketed through the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, InMotion Biometrics, Inc. (“IMB”), that combines face and voice recognition technologies for authenticating the identity of an individual. Edentify sells its solutions directly, and through channel partners in the financial services, healthcare, and government sectors. Future plans include the development of an integrated product that combines our information-based ID manipulation detection capability with IMB’s biometric technology, thereby enabling more accurate enrollment and, subsequently, a more reliable identity protection system.
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