# Daon

> Daon supplies enterprise software that verifies identities and authenticates people across onboarding, login, contact centers, transactions, and account recovery. Its IdentityX and TrustX platforms combine document checks, facial and voice biometrics, liveness detection, and configurable authentication. Banks, telecom providers, travel businesses, and public-sector organizations use the technology worldwide.

- **Founded:** 2000
- **Headquarters:** Fairfax, United States
- **Founders:** Dermot Desmond (Founder, owner and chairman)
- **Products:** IdentityX, TrustX, xProof, xAuth, xFace
- **Notable:** Company reports more than 2 billion identities secured across six continents., Company reports more than 250 million daily authentications., VeriFLY reported serving more than 12 million travelers by September 2022.

## Products & services

- **IdentityX** — Configurable identity platform for customer-controlled on-premises or private-cloud deployment, supporting verification and authentication across channels.
- **TrustX** — Daon-managed SaaS platform running on AWS, with no-code workflow orchestration, reporting, and third-party integrations.
- **xProof** — Identity verification through document validation, facial comparison, liveness checks, and configurable review and data-check workflows.
- **xAuth** — Multi-factor and passwordless authentication, including FIDO-certified authenticators and passkeys, integrated with customer identity records.
- **xFace** — Server-based facial biometric authentication for access, transaction step-up, and account recovery.
- **xVoice** — Active or passive voice biometric authentication for contact centers and other voice channels.
- **xDeTECH** — Synthetic-voice detection that signals likely generated audio without requiring enrollment of a voice biometric template; formerly xSentinel.
- **AI.X** — Deepfake-defense technologies incorporated into Daon verification and authentication applications.
- **VeriFLY** — Travel-document validation delivered through an app or integrated into travel-provider experiences; used for pandemic health credentials and broader travel documentation.
- **Workforce Identity Fraud Prevention** — Combines TrustX, xProof, xAuth, and xFace for candidate verification, employee onboarding, passkeys, recovery, and reverification.

## Achievements

- Company reports more than 2 billion identities secured across six continents.
- Company reports more than 250 million daily authentications.
- VeriFLY reported serving more than 12 million travelers by September 2022.
- Daon’s August 2026 Quantum Identity announcement reported a lifetime global portfolio of more than 320 patents.
- Received Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Technology Innovation Leadership Recognition in global biometric solutions.
- Selected by the British Council for a multi-year deployment announced in July 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Launched Workforce Identity Fraud Prevention, connecting hiring verification with authentication and later reverification.
- **2026-07** — British Council selected TrustX and xProof for registration, test-center checks, and in-test reverification.
- **2026-07** — Announced its third patent for autonomous AI-agent governance, focused on action-level authorization.
- **2026-08** — Introduced a five-patent Quantum Identity architecture; described it as an evolving architecture rather than broadly ready production quantum biometric infrastructure.
- **2026-08** — Announced Frost & Sullivan innovation leadership recognition.
- **2026-09** — Published “Fraud Has Memory. Does your Identity System?”, arguing for persistent identity context beyond onboarding.

## Links

- Website: https://www.daon.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/daon/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/daoninc
- GitHub: https://github.com/daoninc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM5AQWq0iM-s6FakA8A8U_A
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/humanauthentication

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Last updated: 2026-10-07