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      Veonics® Portal History and System Architecture

      The Veonics® Portal is a hosted photo ID management software deployed commercially in 2015. Some additional uniques are: remote photo capture, mobile displayed Veonics Virtual ID™, printer agnostic, and data integration functions.

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      A Little History

      eXpress badging® uses the Veonics® Portal to print hundreds of thousands of badges for our customers annually. We also have a SaaS (software as a service) customer base that purchases annual licenses to print badges on their premises. We currently have a growing customer base of Veonics Virtual ID customers who only use mobile-displayed photo ID cards.

      In our driven efforts to create a mobile device displayed Veonics Virtual ID, eXpress badging built a hosted photo ID management software solution with several features in mind:

      • An architecture that securely manages many organizations and users
      • Enabled with a powerful MySQL database, allowing for definable fields and attributes
      • Capture badge photos remotely using a secure email process that does not require the recipient's login credentials
      • The ability to capture, crop, and store badge photos one at a time or in batches
      • Print a photo ID badge using off-the-self badge printers
      • A powerful badge template design tool based on customer-provided badge designs
      • Data-integrated features to connect with the customer's source database(s)

      Time Line

      • 2011 - "WEB-IT" - Hosted identity management PowerPoint presented to Veonics, LLC Board of Directors
      • 2012 - THE SPARK - Go mobile or go out of business 
      • 2013 - 6Ds MAPPING - The start of the Veonics® Portal source code
      • 2014 - ALPHA/BETA BUILD - Playground full of cool browser-based ID management tools
      • 2015 - CUSTOMER ONBOARDING -  Migrated eXpress badging contract badging customers and onboarded the first annual Veonics® Portal customer
      • 2016 - OEM Transfer of Ownership TOO PROSPECTING - The market was not ready yet, but the Veonics® Portal was a great fit for eXpress badging
      • 2017 - OEM NOT VIABLE - Veonics Partners moved into Federal space, while eXpress badging saw the viability
      • 2018 - EB TOO - eXpress badging contracted with Veonics Partners, the purchase and Transfer of Ownership of the Veonics® Portal source code
      • 2019 - eB PATH TO VIABILITY - The Veonics® Portal growth continued with large "Corporate 1000" rebadges, leading the path to viability
      • 2020 - STABILITY AND RIO - The market shift to hosted ID management begun
      • 2021 - TOO COMPLETION - eXpress badging became the sole owner of the Veonics® Portal source code

      Veonics® Portal Three Solutions: 

      Veonics® Portal ID Hosted ID Management Software (PORTAL)

      • A user interface designed to manage badge data, capture photos, generate virtual ID cards, and send badge print jobs to printer queues.

      Veonics® Portal Print Queue Manager (VPQM)

      • A lightweight desktop downloaded applet that is user credential accessed and used to release print jobs to local printers.

      Veonics Credential Database (VCDB)

      • Our API or SFTP data integration feature is designed to populate the Veonics Portal from a customer’s source database.

      AWS Web Services, Data, Photo Server Configuration, and Encryption: 

      AWS RDS Data Server: Encrypted at Rest

      • The Veonics® Portal uses managed database services through Amazon Web Services (AWS); specifically, their enterprise RDS Servicer which provides redundancy/fast performance/security/high availability.  Details of RDS security features are explained here:  https://aws.amazon.com/rds/details/#security
      • Amazon RDS allows the Veonics® Portal to encrypt databases using Key Management Services (KMS).  Veonics® Portal data is encrypted at rest.

      AWS S3 Photo Server: Encrypted at Rest with no open/published link to the associated data record

      • Photo files are stored on a separate AWS S3 Server, and we format the photos files so there is no direct link to the related ID record.

      EC2 Server

      • All web services (web application components: examples WSDL, SOAP, RDF, and RSS) are stored and managed on a third Amazon EC2 Server, further firewalling the ability of breached access functionality.

      Load Balancing

      • The Veonics® Portal can automate load balancing when needed. Currently, it is not enabled, as we have plenty of capacity, and it is monitored as needed.