Every organization has documents that are virtually indispensable to its operations. While businesses may prefer to deal with these documents in the electronic domain, printing remains a fundamental instrument for businesses across every industry. Temporary identity documents are used to meter access to borders and secure areas. Pedigree documents are used to safeguard the pharmaceutical supply chain and protect the lives of humans. And financial documents are used to conduct transactions and ensure compliance in reporting. While they may range in form and function, protecting the authenticity of printed documents and the information contained within them throughout their lifecycle is imperative to the prevention of fraud, counterfeiting and other criminal acts.
What You Can Do
Protecting valuable documents is a critical component of effective enterprise risk management, and begins by recognizing their vulnerabilities across the entire lifecycle – from electronic generation through print translation. An effective solution requires a multi-faceted approach that provides layers of security ranging from enterprise rights management, print restrictions and physical security to copy protection and print encryption. The following information addresses a few of the document types that pose the biggest problems, along with suggestions on how to address them:
Temporary Identity Documents
Permanent identification documents such as licenses and passports generally have many layers of security built into them, thus making them extremely difficult to copy or reproduce. Unfortunately, in many situations dictated by time or expense, temporary identity documents and work permits become a necessary means of granting individuals access to borders, secure areas and information. Protecting these documents and ensuring the identity of the individuals associated with them requires a combination of copy-protection, print encryption and the embedding of artifacts such as verification data and or photos within the document itself. The hallmarks of a proper solution for temporary identities are a low cost of creation, a low cost of verification, and a high level of copy- and tamper-proof security. Traditionally, achieving all of these goals has been difficult, if not impossible.
Documents of Authenticity
There are many examples of documents that are essential either in the lifecycle of a product or in a multi-tiered process as a means of verifying an item's authenticity. Prime examples of the former are pedigree documents used in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Without a pedigree document, drugs are rendered worthless, but with a forged pedigree, counterfeit or stolen drugs become more “real.” Protecting documents such as these requires a combination of copy protection and tamper proofing, as well as an embedded means of authentication.
How We Help
AuthentiGuard On-Demand can be a key component of a security strategy that protects a myriad of document types. It incorporates multiple technologies to not only make printed materials copy and tamper proof, but also secures the data contained within them through its patented data encryption algorithms. Because it uses standard desktop printers and inks, it eliminates the traditional barriers of cost and complexity. AuthentiGuard On-Demand also enables the generation of documents that are verifiable at every stop on their journey, empowering anyone at risk to take part in the mitigation of that risk. With AuthentiGuard On-Demand, businesses can prevent the damages associated with the criminal abuse of valuable documents.