International Automated Systems, Inc.'s Fingerprint-Secured Debit Card Program To Be Featured at Debit Card Industry Forum <br><br>

   AMERICAN FORK, Utah, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Randy Johnson, vice president
 of International Automated Systems, Inc. ("IAS") (OTC Bulletin Board:   IAUS)
 will be an invited speaker and the company's new fingerprint secured debit
 card system will be featured at Faulkner & Gray's eighth annual Debit Card
 Forum Convention, to be held in Orlando, Fla., February 27-29, 2000.  The
 annual event attracts an international audience of industry executives and
 specialists, including managers of bank debit card programs, retail banking
 officers, bank operations/DP managers, electronic funds transfer (EFT) network
 and point-of-purchase sales executives, credit card executives, retail
 executives, ATM professionals and third-party processors. <br><br>
     International Automated Systems, Inc. successfully developed and piloted
 the first fingerprint-secured debit card program in a retail environment.  The
 company's technology, consisting of hardware and software having been
 incorporated into a security device attached to a computer, banking or retail
 sales terminal, has been approved by the American Clearing House for use in
 securing commercial and banking transactions, including Internet transactions. <br><br>
     Technology developed and marketed by International Automated Systems, Inc.
 provides positive, cross-referenced identification of persons based upon
 three-dimensional fingerprint images.  It allows users and subscribers to post
 transactions at an Automated Fingerprint Identification Machine (AFIM)-enabled
 terminal using a data-encoded "magstripe" card containing specific banking
 information and cross-referenced to the individual's real-time fingerprint
 identity.  With the AFIM system, anyone, anywhere may engage in interstate or
 international commerce secured by personal identity and funds availability,
 regardless of where they bank. <br><br>
     Retailers, banks and any business that has a need for guaranteed
 transactions may subscribe to the service, which requires the installation of
 the AFIM system connected to International Automated Systems, Inc.'s
 fingerprint identification database.  Upon processing an inquiry and providing
 a positive identification, the system assigns an identification number to the
 fingerprint identification that becomes embedded in the transaction
 information.  The system, which potentially could spell the end to credit card
 fraud, is designed not only to prevent fraudulent identification but also,
 through the embedding process, to prevent duplicate transactions being posted
 to the individual's account. <br><br>
     "After only five months of an ongoing beta-test, approximately 50% of the
 households in the pilot city already purchase groceries from the local
 supermarket using our consumer, fingerprint-secured debit card system," said
 Neldon Johnson, president and chief executive officer of International
 Automated Systems, Inc.  "We are encouraged by the interest that is building
 and believe we have a business solution that will rapidly catch on among
 industry decision makers actively seeking a 'bullet-proof' method of securing
 transactions," said Johnson. <br><br>
     International Automated Systems, Inc. develops high-technology products
 designed for increasing business efficiency, transactional security and access
 control.  Visit the company's web site at www.iaus.com. <br><br>
 
     NOTE: Statements contained in this release that are not strictly
 historical are forward-looking within the meaning of the safe harbor clause of
 the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  Editors and investors
 are cautioned that such forward-looking statements invoke risk and
 uncertainties that may cause the company's actual results to differ materially
 from such forward-looking statements.  These risks and uncertainties include,
 but are not limited to, demand for the company's product both domestically and
 abroad, the company's ability to continue to develop its market, general
 economic conditions and other factors that may be more fully described in the
 company's literature and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange
 Commission.  This is not a solicitation to buy or sell securities and this
 does not purport to be an analysis of the company's financial position. <br><br>

SOURCE  International Automated Systems, Inc.