In addition to the stability, scalability and extensibility of its architecture, cloud platform have made it possible for workflows across government to become more pervasive and secure as a result [4]. The TCO of a given cloud platform or series of applications therefore has continued to become reduced by the experience effect (comparable to economies of scale yet only applied to data aggregated and knowledge creation) across government [6]. This experience effect is being driven by the pervasive piloting of APIs and the development of shared resource programs that enable greater accuracy and speed of response to share security threats across departments of homeland security, departments, and ministries of defence globally [9].

The flexibility and agility of APIs are also the catalyst for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) secured platforms that are biometrics device agnostic. That is to say they rely only on the API-based interface to the device, not the actual commands...
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