IWS™ Biometric Engine® Honored for Outstanding Innovation

SAN DIEGO, CA, July 8, 2005 - ImageWare® Systems, Inc. (AMEX: IW), a world leading developer and provider of identity management solutions, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)’s BiometriTech magazine online (www.biometritech.com) has named the IWS™ Biometric Engine® as a recipient of a 2004 Product of the Year Award.

“Each year BiometriTech magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements in the biometrics industry. ImageWare has demonstrated to the editors of BiometriTech that its products or services have gone the extra mile to create a truly innovative product,” said Rich Tehrani, President and Group Publisher of BiometriTech.

“We are very proud and honored to receive the Product of the Year Award from BiometriTech Magazine,” said Jim Miller, chairman and CEO of ImageWare Systems. “We appreciate this recognition of our firm commitment to developing innovative biometric identity management solutions and this award validates that we are delivering on that commitment.” The IWS™ Biometric Engine® is a biometric identity management platform for multi-biometric searching and matching that is scalable, technology agnostic and allows organizations to manage population databases of unlimited sizes. The IWS™ Biometric Engine®’s multi-biometric enrollment, management and authentication platform allows users to search and match tens of millions of biometrics for identity confirmation. Searches can be 1:1 (verification), 1:N (identification) and X:N (investigative). IWS™ Biometric Engine® is technology agnostic, enabling users to employ biometric devices and algorithms from any vendor, as well as support the combination of the following biometric types: finger, face, iris, hand geometry, palm, DNA, signature, voice, 3D face and retina.

About ImageWare Systems, Inc.
ImageWare Systems, Inc. (AMEX:IW), is a leading developer and provider of identity management solutions, providing biometric, secure credential, law enforcement and digital imaging technologies. Scalable for worldwide deployment, the Company's biometric product line includes a multi-biometric engine that is hardware and algorithm independent, enabling the enrollment and management of unlimited population sizes. ImageWare's identification products are used to manage and issue secure credentials including national IDs, passports, driver licenses, smart cards and access control credentials. ImageWare's digital booking products provide law enforcement with integrated mug shot, fingerprint Livescan and investigative capabilities. The Company also provides comprehensive digital workflow solutions for the professional photography industry. ImageWare is headquartered in San Diego, with offices in Washington DC and Canada. For more information visit www.iwsinc.com.

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