Aware, Massachusetts-based biometric orchestration and identity solutions company, has announced a set of enhancements to its Awareness Platform that expand its ability to connect multiple biometric technologies and run identity decisions in real time. The updates include technology partnerships with ROC and Mitek, improvements to its liveness detection capabilities and a new matching algorithm the company says delivers approximately 10 times lower False Non-Match Rate compared to previous versions.
The Awareness Platform is a SaaS-based system that allows organizations to design and manage biometric identity workflows across enrollment, verification, authentication and identification. The platform is structured to act as a coordination layer, connecting different biometric systems and allowing organizations to switch between or run multiple vendors without disrupting live operations. According to Aware's own research, 98 percent of organizations currently using biometrics expressed interest in biometric orchestration capabilities, and those organizations are already using an average of three biometric vendors each.
The new integrations bring in ROC, a Denver-based company that develops Vision AI, biometric matching and video analytics systems for defense, public safety and digital commerce, and Mitek, an identity verification company whose technology is used by more than 7,000 organizations including major global banks. ROC's biometric matching technologies are now available within the Awareness Platform's decision orchestration layer, while Mitek's liveness detection and identity verification capabilities are integrated into the platform's verification workflows.
Ajay Amlani, CEO of Aware, framed the expansion around operational complexity rather than algorithm performance alone:
"The future of identity isn't only about better algorithms. It's about better orchestration. Organizations are under increasing pressure to modernize identity systems while responding to rapidly evolving fraud threats and growing operational complexity. With the latest innovations to the Awareness Platform, we're giving customers the ability to configure biometric workflows, orchestrate multiple technologies, and optimize identity decisions in real time through a more intelligent and customizable platform approach."
B. Scott Swann, CEO of ROC, described the operating environment the integration is built for:
"Managing biometric systems has become more convoluted and performance-driven than ever. ROC's biometric matching technologies help power high-confidence identity decisions within the Awareness Platform while enabling organizations to orchestrate workflows more effectively and gain greater visibility into biometric performance in real-world production environments."
Faisal Nisar, VP of Product Management at Mitek, pointed to the scale of fraud threats driving demand for the partnership:
"Identity threats are evolving rapidly, and organizations need modern fraud solutions that can combine security, usability, and operational resilience. Our liveness detection is trusted by some of the world's most security-demanding institutions, including top global banks, and our partnership with Aware brings that same high-assurance identity verification to their customers."
On the technical side, the updated Intelligent Liveness feature adds optical and spectral analysis to verify that biometric images originate from a real device camera sensor rather than a virtual camera, device emulator, replay attack or synthetic media pipeline. The system performs these checks in under two seconds without requiring users to blink, move their head or complete any challenge-response action. The updated Intelligent Matching capability introduces a new scalable architecture designed to support sub-second one-to-many matching across large biometric datasets.
General availability for the full set of updates is planned for Q3 2026. Aware will preview the capabilities at Identity Week Europe, where it will be at booth 906, and at Identiverse, where it will be at booth 822.
