WCC Smart Search and Match Announces Collaboration With Secugen

UTRECHT, Netherlands, and RESTON, Virginia, January 31 /PRNewswire/ --

- Multi-Modal Fusion Platform to Include Leading Fingerprint Technology

WCC Smart Search & Match, a leading provider of high-performance search
and match software, today announced its collaboration with SecuGen, a leader
in optical fingerprint recognition technology for biometric identification
and authentication. SecuGen has developed fast, rugged and accurate
fingerprint readers and software, which will provide enhanced identification
and authentication for WCC's ELISE ID - The Platform for Multi-Modal Fusion.

ELISE ID is capable of searching vast amounts of data - both biographic
and complex biometric - to deliver meaningful, ranked results extremely
quickly. ELISE ID optimizes identity searching using advanced technologies to
calculate similarities and rank results, allowing for true score-level
fusion. ELISE ID's platform will incorporate SecuGen's fingerprint technology
as a significant enhancement to its capabilities for multi-factor
identification.

"Our partnership with SecuGen brings together two key technologies to
deliver on the promise of multimodal fusion," said Peter Went, CEO of WCC.
"This collaboration allows us for an enhanced multi-modal search and match
platform tailored to large databases found in such areas as the federal
government, healthcare and financial sectors."

"Fingerprint authentication is one of the trusted and most accurate
methods to proving identity," said Won Lee, CEO at SecuGen. "We are excited
to work with WCC Smart Search & Match to create a truly multi-modal platform
that exceeds anything available in the world today."

About WCC

WCC is a global technology leader in search and match software. Its ELISE
matching system delivers the best possible identity matching results using
multiple biometrics and/or biographic criteria. WCC's core competencies are
in Identity Matching (biometrics), HR/staffing and other markets.

For more information, please visit: http://www.multimodalfusion.com

About SecuGen

SecuGen Corporation is the world's leading provider of advanced, optical
fingerprint recognition technology, products, tools and platforms for
physical and information security. SecuGen designs and develops FBI-certified
fingerprint readers and OEM components, developer kits and software,
including NIST/MINEX-compliant algorithms.

For more information, please visit: http://www.secugen.com

SecuGen is a registered trademark of SecuGen Corporation in the United
States and other countries.

ELISE is a registered trademark of WCC Group BV in the United States and
other countries.