SAN DIEGO, Calif. – November 2, 2009 – Anakam TFA® Two Factor Authentication has been selected as the winner for "Best Authentication/Identification Product" at the GSN: Government Security News 1st Annual Homeland Security Awards competition. About 300 government officials and industry executives packed the grand ballroom of a Manhattan hotel on Oct. 27, 2009 to witness GSN announce the names of the winners in multiple security categories.

Allan Camaisa, Anakam’s Founder and CEO, was on hand to accept the award personally. “We are honored to be receiving this award for our efforts to deliver a truly unique technology which provides for the trusted identity management of citizens logging on to Government portals- thereby allowing agencies to provide more valuable online services at a greatly reduced cost.”

The 1st annual awards were handed out at a gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Roosevelt Hotel, where an overflow crowd celebrated the outstanding achievements of security vendors and government agencies at the federal, state and municipal levels. The awards program honored leading vendors in IT and physical security who have researched, created and supplied innovative security solutions during the past year.

"Congratulations to Anakam, our winner in the 'Best IT Authentication/Identification Product' category, whose innovative technology enables massive scale, cost-effective and secure two-factor authentication for eGov applications. Anakam's system has enabled remote identity proofing and strong authentication for millions of citizens, while lowering costs of service delivery dramatically by shifting to Web-based applications," said Adrian Courtenay, Chairman of GSN.

Anakam's winning entry, Anakam TFA® Two Factor Authentication, provides enterprises with trusted access through two-factor authentication without the burden associated with issuing tokens or cards and by harnessing the ubiquity of common devises such as cell phones and pagers. Winners in each category were carefully reviewed by a panel of judges and chosen out of multiple entries.

About GSN: Government Security News: GSN: Government Security News was founded in 2003 and is owned by World Business Media, LLC. GSN serves a large audience of professionals in physical, IT and homeland security including federal, state and local officials, as well as integrators, contractors and suppliers who are similarly involved in homeland security. In addition to the monthly print edition, GSN franchise includes a website, a weekly e-newsletter called GSN: Homeland Security Insider, an e-mail blasting service called GSN Homeland Security Product of the Day, and a second e-mail broadcasting service called GSN: White Paper of the Day. Read the latest at www.gsnmagazine.com.

About Anakam:

Anakam enables strong identity authentication and identity management at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions, without encumbering your customers, partners, and employees with cards, software downloads, tokens, or fobs. With tens of millions of end users, the Anakam Identity Suite® is unique in the industry, providing end-to-end multi-channel capabilities that allow you to enable secure, trusted eBusiness to very large user-communities in a single platform. The suite includes two-factor authentication, remote identity proofing and identity verification, professional credentialing, and secure collaboration and authentication. For more information, visit Anakam.com.

For more information please contact:

Krislyn Smith, Account Executive
Email: ksmith@anakam.com
Phone: + 1 619.233.7778
Fax: + 1 866.619.2728