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b'Daon is no stranger to large-scale identity projects, being involved in national ID and border management projects spanning the globe. The company\'s X-Products group was chosen as a pilot award recipient for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Regarding ID\'s Gina Jordan spoke with Cathy Tilton, vice president of Standards and Technology at Daon and the lead for Daon\'s NSTIC pilot program about the award. Daon is providing an identity platform using smart phone technologies that can host multiple authentication methods and do risk based authentication. "That technology is based on using your smart phone as a multi-factor authentication platform into traditional applications, Web apps and mobile apps," Tilton explains. "It hosts up to eight different authentication methods, both traditional and biometric methods, and then based on the risk level of the transaction that\'s requested, then it would invoke some combination of those authentication methods to get to the assurance that is needed for that transaction." Daon will also be piloting two other portions, including a research agenda, which includes Purdue University. Researchers will look at the usability and accessibility, privacy, security, performance and user acceptance of the solution. The last area will be an operational pilot. Daon teamed with AARP, PayPal, the American Association of Airport Executives, Purdue University\'s IT department so and then a major bank. Each will be utilizing this technology in a pilot mode and will be collecting data and getting feedback for that as well.'