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Partnership for Safe Medicines

Security printing, RFID and related mechanisms to address counterfeiting and others supply chain fraud depend on the stick (investigation, evidence, prosecution) and the carrot (reward for compliance). The carrot is readily addressed through variable...

Published 04-25-2009 3:58 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: variable data printing, security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, RFID, Drugs, Partnership for Safe Medicines, Pharmacists, PSM
Stocking Stuffers I: Evolution Whitepaper

[Part one of whitepaper-length recap's from this year's blog] An Evolving Allegory As an allegory for security printing, I have borrowed the concept of pre-adaptation from evolutionary biology. In the next few blogs I will borrow much more extensively...

Published 12-30-2008 4:52 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Gutenberg, Niles Eldridge, cladogram
An Evolving Analogy, Part V: Punctuated Equilibrium

The final section of the security printing/evolution allegory is punctuated equilibrium. Punctuated equilibrium is an evolutionary biology hypothesis largely attributable to Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould in 1972. The theory states that species...

Published 11-29-2008 6:44 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, Gutenberg, Niles Eldridge, cladogram
A barcode for everything

Thanks to my friend, John Keogh of GS/1 Canada, for this link to the "Barcode of Life Data Systems": http://www.barcodinglife.org/views/login.php The Barcode of Life Data Systems (using the acronym BOLD instead of BLDS...) product, like John...

Published 10-25-2008 3:13 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security, security deterrent, RFID, Bar code, Barcode of Life Data Systems, ECC, BOLD, DNA
An Evolving Analogy: Part 3, Convergent Evolution and Mimicry

Change isn’t always for the better. You can, for example, be short-changed. You can change from bad to worse. You can change your Outlook (Microsoft or otherwise). Or you can change a diaper (well, this is better, presumably, for the wearer of the diaper...

Published 10-17-2008 5:10 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Mimicry, Analogy, Homology, Batesian Mimicry
An Evolving Analogy, Part 2: Co-Evolution

Co-evolution is the process by which two species simultaneous exert selective pressure on each other, termed “reciprocal evolutionary adaptations”. Flowers and bees are a good example of mutualism, wherein the shared selective pressure results in a tangible...

Published 10-05-2008 4:59 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, VDP, forensics, SVDP, RFID, Pre-adaptation, Darwinism, Innate Moving Target, Security Variable Data Printing, Convergent Evolution, Punctuated Equilibrium, Evolution, Change, Co-evolution, Host-Parasite, Mutualism, Dilbert, Pointy-Haired Boss
China/New Zealand Contaminated Milk--It's not just about brand protection and anti-counterfeiting

This blog focuses on security printing to prevent product counterfeiting and provide brand protection. However, the principles covered, if applied in the appropriate manner and context, can protect from product tampering, from product diversion, from...

Published 09-17-2008 3:18 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, VDP, Provenance, security VDP, RFID, tampering, Sanlu group, China milk scare, melamine, New Zealand milk scare, milk, adulterated milk powder
Ecosystem Score: Proving It’s Real vs. Proving It’s Fake?

In the previous blog, I talked about your Deterrent Score, and mentioned you must multiply it by your Ecosystem Score to get your overall effectiveness. As I mentioned in the May 12 blog, it takes PRACTICE to put such an ecosystem together. In today’s...

Published 08-17-2008 6:43 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, authentication, forensics, mass serialization, security deterrent, RFID, packaging

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Partnership for Safe Medicines

Stocking Stuffers I: Evolution Whitepaper

An Evolving Analogy, Part V: Punctuated Equilibrium

A barcode for everything

An Evolving Analogy: Part 3, Convergent Evolution and Mimicry

An Evolving Analogy, Part 2: Co-Evolution

China/New Zealand Contaminated Milk--It's not just about brand protection and anti-counterfeiting

Ecosystem Score: Proving It’s Real vs. Proving It’s Fake?