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World Economic Forum and Counterfeiting

A quick set of thoughts from the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos last week ( http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm ). The first addresses Threats to Security: "The cross-border flow of global proceeds from criminal activities, corruption and...

Published 02-04-2009 6:46 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, security, Track and Trace, economy, Mexico, World Economic Forum, WEF, Advanced Track and Trace
Visit to Princeton

A heartfelt thanks to the Princeton area ACM/IEEE for hosting me last Thursday to present: Security Printing and Imaging: Stopping Counterfeit Products Counterfeit products are a growing problem. Since counterfeiters usually target brands, many companies...

Published 04-19-2009 3:33 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, Princeton ACM, Princeton IEEE, HP Labs
NAFDAC branching out to India

Nigeria is working with Interpol and planning to set up 3 offices in India to fight counterfeiting, and specifically allegedly China-produced fakes labelled “Made in India”. The full article is posted at: http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com...

Published 08-06-2009 4:16 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, GS1, ISO, safety, MPedigree, counterfeit, Bright Simons, IMANI, Nigeria, India, NAFDAC
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
A Consideration of Processes

Recent blogs have focused on how deterrent technologies can be used to support the ecosystem required to provide strong brand protection and anti-counterfeiting. That ecosystem involves the PRACTICE mnemonic: P is for Plan, R is for Research, A is for...

Published 08-25-2008 6:53 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, deterrents, investigate, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, forensics, SVDP, image forensics
First Day

Everything has a starting point. Every blog, just as every job. This is the start of my blog. This blog is about authentication, security, and brand protection. More specifically, it is about how to achieve these using printing and image processing in...

Published 04-24-2008 5:54 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, variable data printing, security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection
How Do You Address That?

We’ve all been there. Meeting that skinny, medium-height, cropped hair, boyish-faced person named “Chris” or “Pat” at a social gathering. Is it a man or a woman? How do you address that person? Thankfully, “Ms.” has entered the English language, but we...

Published 05-06-2008 12:51 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, variable data printing, security printing, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection
Tomatoes that terrorize--or the recall to recall

There are three topics that, as part of the HP community blog team, we are not to discuss on our blog: religion, politics and the ingredients in a hot dog. The topic I discuss tonight is a close fourth. So, I will try to be a little delicate here. The...

Published 06-21-2008 6:15 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, Supply Chain, Just-in-time, Recall, Outsourcing
The Price of Oil May Swing the Outsourcing Pendulum

I once met the Dalai Lama. I was in Bangalore (now Bengaluru) for work and he walked into the hotel lobby where I was meeting with some colleagues. I got out of my chair and turned around to leave for another meeting, when he and his entourage were walking...

Published 07-05-2008 7:35 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, brand protection, Outsourcing, Dalai Lama, fuel costs, petroleum, Bangalore, oil price, shipping, Flat Earth, energy costs
How Important is Security? Be a Puppet Master and Find Out

You're reading a blog on security printing and imaging, which is the art of adding security data to printed material for later reading and proof of authenticity. Obviously, you already believe security is important, or you'd be YouTubing, Tivo...

Published 03-09-2009 2:05 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security, John Hughes-Wilson, espionage, surveillance, The Puppet Master
Label liabilities, or when is more information simply noise?

We live in the age of data, not information. Which is to say that the amount of digital data doubles every 18 months. But there is not necessarily a smarter set of people assimilating, digesting, diagnosing, learning from this data. Facebook, Twitter...

Published 03-11-2009 3:24 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: labels, FDA, labelling, drug label, Sleater Kinney, Police, Wyeth
Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) Law in effect Today

An evolutionary "time out" with some timely news with respect to the recent tainted-food scares: "On May 13, 2002, the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, more commonly known as the 2002 Farm Bill, became law. One of its many...

Published 10-01-2008 7:32 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security, Track and Trace, labels, food, safety regulations, country of origin labeling, COOL
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
5th Global Forum on Pharmaceutical AntiCounterfeiting

Reconnaissance International's 5th Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting is being held in Miami 24-26 February 2010. Details on the event, including submitting a paper and information on the sponsors, is available at: http://www.regonline...

Published 08-02-2009 4:32 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, Graphics of the Americas, Miami, Reconnaissance International, Miami Beach
Amusing ourselves to death

A blog on a 24-year old book? Seems to go against the whole mobile, Web 2.0, "change is changing" metaphor of the 21st century, at first. But, it has never been more important. The Wikipedia entry on Neil Postman's seminal book, officially...

Published 02-26-2009 3:36 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: variable data printing, Education, Politics, Video, Television, language, exposition, Blogs, Neil Postman

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World Economic Forum and Counterfeiting

Visit to Princeton

NAFDAC branching out to India

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

A Consideration of Processes

First Day

How Do You Address That?

Tomatoes that terrorize--or the recall to recall

The Price of Oil May Swing the Outsourcing Pendulum

How Important is Security? Be a Puppet Master and Find Out

Label liabilities, or when is more information simply noise?

Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) Law in effect Today

Stocking Stuffers I: Evolution Whitepaper

5th Global Forum on Pharmaceutical AntiCounterfeiting

Amusing ourselves to death