October 14, 2025 — Burlington, Mass. — Leads & Copy — Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE), a global leader in biometric identity and authentication solutions, announced its identity verification technology has earned FIDO Alliance Certification for Face Verification. The certification includes advanced liveness detection and facial matching capabilities, marking a significant milestone in the company’s commitment to accurate, secure, and equitable biometric solutions.
This certification follows a decade of dedicated collaboration and progress with the FIDO Alliance, including certifications in three FIDO UAF categories and NIST FATE testing. This reinforces the Aware commitment to independently validated, top-performing biometric technologies.
The latest certification was awarded following rigorous testing conducted in collaboration with FIDO Alliance and BixeLab, a leading NVLAP, FIDO, and MOSIP accredited biometric testing laboratory that specializes in evaluating biometric, digital identity, and AI solutions to assure accuracy, security and fairness. BixeLab is the first laboratory accredited under the NIST-administered NVLAP program for bias testing in biometrics.
In independent FIDO-accredited testing conducted by BixeLab, the Aware identity verification solution met all FIDO-specified performance criteria for Level 1 (Reference Types 1 and 2). The system successfully detected all sophisticated (Level B) presentation attacks, including morphs, deepfakes, and masks, while achieving a 0 % False Non-Match Rate (FNMR), a 0 % Bona Fide Presentation Classification Error Rate (BPCER), and maintaining a low overall Spoof Accept Rate of 1.05 % across more than 1,000 attack attempts.
Face verification has become essential to validating user identity in today’s remote and hybrid environments. The FIDO Face Verification Certification ensures that biometric providers like Aware can validate “selfie-match” solutions against trusted identity documents, such as passports and driver’s licenses, with proven accuracy, liveness assurance, and bias mitigation. The testing framework minimizes the risks of spoofing, deepfake impersonation, and injection attacks, while also ensuring compliance readiness in authentication systems. As a result, commercial and government organizations can trust that Aware solutions meet globally recognized FIDO standards for performance, security, and equity across diverse user demographics.
With this certification, Aware joins a select group of technology providers helping to strengthen one of the most critical points in the digital identity lifecycle — ensuring users can be safely and fairly verified in remote settings. The certification also supports FIDO’s larger mission to reduce the world’s reliance on passwords, helping enterprises, service providers, and end users alike move toward strong, user-friendly authentication that protects the entire identity journey — from onboarding to account recovery.
In conjunction with this milestone, Ajay Amlani will deliver the closing keynote at the FIDO Alliance’s Authenticate 2025 Conference, taking place in Carlsbad, CA. His presentation will be held on Wednesday, October 15 at 3:20 pm PDT.
Contact:
Delaney Gembis
Aware, Inc.
781-687-0393
marketing@aware.com
Source: Aware, Inc.
