AU Associates moved into this specialist field of recruitment at the beginning of 2005. We believe that it is an area that will continually expand and become core for business of all sizes who deal with or hold private or business critical data.

Identity management (ID management) is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system (such as a country, a network, or an enterprise) and controlling their access to resources within that system by associating user rights and restrictions with the established identity. The driver licensing system is a simple example of identity management: drivers are identified by their license numbers and user specifications (such as "can not drive after dark") are linked to the identifying number.

Trust is of fundamental importance for business. We need to trust our employees, suppliers, partners and customers in such matters as credit, non-disclosure of privileged information and compliance with corporate policies. In order to achieve that trust, it is vital that the identity of all partners in business can be established efficiently and reliably.

Biometrics

Fingerprint and Hand
Fingerprinting (also called finger scanning due to the negative connotations that 'fingerprinting' implies) is one of the most common forms of biometric identification. Fingerprinting basically uses a fingerprint's minutiae — the ridges, bifurcations,