Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon company, announced Amazon One Enterprise, a palm-based identity service for comprehensive authentication that is said to improve organizational security and help prevent costly security breaches.
The new enterprise access control offering enables organizations to provide a fast, convenient and contactless experience for employees and other authorized users to gain access to physical locations, according to the announcement.
Amazon One Enterprise eliminates operational overhead associated with the management of traditional enterprise authentication methods, like badges and PINs, according to the announcement. IT and security administrators can install the Amazon One devices and manage users, devices and software updates in the AWS Management Console.
Formally unveiled during the recent the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the Amazon One Enterprise is currently “available in preview in the U.S.” Initial deployments include corporate users IHG Hotels and Resorts, Paznic, KONE and Boon Edam, a leading manufacturer of revolving doors, security doors and security turnstiles.
“Our mission at Boon Edam is to protect what matters most to our customers by creating an ideal secured entry solution,” stated 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.”
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.
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, the platform authenticates users for access to web applications and software.
To learn more about the new offering, go here.
