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News 4 WIVB Coverage
Buffalo-Based Companies Developing Identity Theft Prevention
Dec 4, 2006 09:02 PM
(Buffalo, NY, December 4, 2006) - Downtown Buffalo is now home to the world headquarters of a sophisticated digital security system. News 4's Alysha Palumbo shows us how World DLA will help everyone from border security agents to retail clerks verify people's identities.
As a border community, Buffalo can be vulnerable to certain security risks.
Shatter IT president Brian Chapin said, "ID thieves are going to find the lowest and most easy way to steal or to access information."
But two Buffalo-based companies, World DLA and Shatter IT, have teamed up to change that.
World DLA president Larry Codenys said, "We're here to verify identity authentication, to make sure that the risk to people is reduced, and to look at terrorism reduction, as well as come up with a cost-beneficial solution to make sure everybody's risk is reduced."
So how do they do that? They've created an extensive information database stored in the Main Place tower.
Codenys said, "It instantaneously, within two seconds, gives them back a reading that the identity they were given matches what's in the databases internationally."
But if a thief or a terrorist is trying to pose as someone else, it throws up a red flag.
Codenys said, "If somebody is trying to fake somebody else's ID, and it goes into the system, by adding the multiple levels of information, chances are they won't know it all, and it'll come back as an invalid match."
And State Senator Mary Lou Rath says this technology could be an efficient alternative to the impending universal ID.
Rath, the Republican from Williamsville, said, "There's an awful lot that people want to go back and forth for, and so we've got to make that going back and forth easy, not only for the people who live here, but for international visitors who come to this country and to Canada."
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