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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-076002"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AWRE"
cik: "0001015739"
company_name: "AWARE INC /MA/"
filed_at: "2022-03-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T22:36:30.790300+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aware enters $2.5M strategic partnership and investment with MIRACL for biometric MFA

## Summary
- $2.5M strategic investment in loan stock of Omlis Limited, parent of MIRACL.
- Mutual reseller arrangement to integrate Aware's biometrics with MIRACL's MFA solutions.
- Partnership targets data breaches and ransomware, especially in financial services.
- Extends Aware's cloud-based biometric authentication portfolio, following Fortress Identity acquisition.
- Aware CEO Bob Eckel highlights MFA with biometrics as key to combating cyber threats.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-076002
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AWRE
- cik: 0001015739
- company_name: AWARE INC /MA/
- filed_at: 2022-03-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015739/000119312522076002/0001193125-22-076002-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1015739/000119312522076002/d327172d8k.htm

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