The Advanced Technology of Secure ID Cards
For any company, having access to their own secure ID cards is a great enhancement to workplace security. ID cards should contain a mix of elements that make fraud very difficult, that make verification of the credentials easy and which make tampering with the identification card impossible. These goals require sophisticated technological solutions.
There was once a time when laminated identification cards provided adequate security for most installations. Those days, because of the availability of cheap, quality printing technology are long gone. Today's identification materials must make use of several different layers of fraud deterrents and protections that ensure that identification is only able to originate from one source.
The first line of defense is in providing safeguards against tampering. Altering an ID card is one of the oldest scams out there. Forgers, over the years, have become very skilled at making changes to any identification almost undetectable to the naked eye. Pictures can be changed, text can be altered and ID cards can be produced outright. With the right technology, these tasks are almost impossible.
Materials that make it apparent when an attempt at tampering as been made ensure that any secure ID cards are not vulnerable to being altered after being printed. Holographic materials that are destroyed when any attempt to alter them is made prevent harsh techniques such as scraping off or dissolving inks from the surface. Pictures that are part of the printing surface itself instead of held in place by laminates ensure that those pictures cannot be switched.
There are other means of providing security that cannot be seen by the casual observer. Nano-text can be printed on various parts of a Secure ID. These lines of text can be incredibly small. Some forms of nano-text are only able to be seen by forensic scientists using sophisticated scanning equipment. Duplicating them is, for all practical purposes, just not going to happen.
Ultraviolet ink used to print elements onto the card can also provide an invisible guardian against fraud. When simply held under an ultra-violet light, these markings are readily apparent to the naked eye. Held in normal light, they disappear. Other devices that work on a similar idea make photocopying impossible by blocking, distorting or defacing images that appear in the copy.
Providing secure ID cards to employees is well worth the costs. The devices, however, must truly merit the label "secure".
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