Document Security in the 21st Century

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Document Security in the 21st Century

• Amgraf User Group
• February 21, 2002

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Two Themes

• Prevent or detect alteration
• Prevent or detect counterfeit

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Goals

• Keep honest people honest
• Drive the professional to someone elses document
• Pass detection (and liability) close to document
  presentation source

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Combine With Other Programs

• Positive Pay
• Reverse Positive Pay
• Regular reconciliation

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Paper-based features

• Level 1 basket weave pantograph
• Level 2 Adds brown stain, black stain, and
  multi-language void
• Level 3 Adds visible and invisible fibers may
  be florescent, acid detection, artificial
  watermarks, controlled distribution
• Level 4 Custom watermarks, security threads,
  Planchettes

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Printed Features

• Void pantographs
• Intricate borders
• White ink printing
• Micro printing
• Iridescent printing (split fountain)
• Warning bands
• Drop-out inks

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More Printed Features

• Step repeat pantographs
• Consecutive numbers
• Bleed-through inks
• Thermo chromic inks
• Holograms
• More

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Electronic Document Security

• Logon and password
• Signature validation
• Locked fields
• Hidden fields
• Encryption
• Secure servers

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Summary

• Technology keeps improving, making it easier to
  counterfeit documents
• Technology also adds new ways to protect
  documents resulting in a game of leap frog