About ID & Secure Document News
Building a Secure Identity Community
The authoritative source for news, insight and analysis across the identity and secure document sector — bridging the physical and digital worlds of identity.
ID & Secure Document News™ (IDN) is the authoritative source for news, insight and analysis across the identity and secure document sector. It bridges the physical and digital worlds of identity, providing global coverage of secure documents, digital ID systems, biometrics, authentication technologies, and the policies that shape them.
Founded in 2013, IDN serves the needs of government authorities, document issuers, technology providers, integrators and standards bodies. As identity credentials evolve to meet the challenges of ever-shifting methods of fraud, IDN tracks their usage across physical and digital domains. Its scope spans passports, national ID cards, driving licences and residence permits, as well as other secure and official documents, including voter cards and electoral systems, examination certificates, and land and property documents. Coverage also extends to biometric enrolment and authentication systems, mobile and digital IDs, and the materials and technologies that underpin them.
Each edition features technical updates, regulatory developments, and critical evaluations of the technologies underpinning secure credentials – from advanced substrates and optically variable devices to mobile ID, quantum-safe cryptography and AI-driven authentication. IDN is published monthly as an 8-page specialist newsletter, with supporting weekly news alerts and a searchable archive on its website.
What IDN Covers
Identity Documents
Passports, national ID cards, driving licences, residence permits, and other government-issued credentials
Other Secure Documents
Voter cards, examination papers and certificates, land and property documents, and other official credentials requiring protection against fraud and counterfeiting
Digital Identity
Mobile IDs, digital wallets, decentralised identity, digital credentials and electronic identity systems
Biometrics & Authentication
Face, fingerprint and iris biometrics, enrolment and verification systems, electronic authentication and public key infrastructures (PKI)
Security Technologies
Security substrates, polycarbonate and hybrid materials, optical and optically variable features, microlens technologies, security printing, chips and other physical and digital security technologies
Emerging Threats & Solutions
Document fraud, identity fraud, counterfeiting, AI-enabled spoofing and deepfakes, post-quantum cryptography and next-generation authentication technologies
Document Design & Programmes
New document designs, national rollouts, technology migrations, implementation case studies and trends in the design and production of secure credentials
Standards, Policy & Industry
ICAO, ISO/IEC, eIDAS, NIST and regional initiatives, alongside tenders, contracts, partnerships, mergers, acquisitions and other developments shaping the identity and secure document industry
Who Should Read IDN
Your Subscription Includes
12 issues/year
Searchable articles on website
Weekly news updates
Editorial Team
Editor
Francis Tuffy
As Consultant, Optical & Authentication Technologies at Reconnaissance International, Francis Tuffy brings extensive experience across the optical security and authentication sectors. He has held senior business and technical management positions with Oberthur Fiduciaire, DuPont Authentication, API Security Products and Light Impressions International, spanning the development, commercialisation and application of advanced security and authentication technologies.
Advisory Board
IDN is supported by a board of advisors who bring a breadth of experience from government, technology and industry associations.
John Mercer
Identity security consultant with global experience in secure document design.
Mónica Peralta
International consultant on civil registration, legal identity and document examination.
Tony Poole
Extensive experience in government business development and document security technologies.
Achim Hildebrandt
Former Head of Passports and ID Cards, German Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Duncan Faulkner
Former senior manager at Bundesdruckerei in Berlin, Germany.
Editorial Policy
ID & Secure Document News is totally impartial and does not favour any organisation, technology or region.
Quality, accuracy and editorial integrity are paramount and all information is fully checked before publication.
ID & Secure Document News welcomes input from individual organisations, but on the understanding that material is only considered for inclusion if it is without bias, accurate and relevant to the readership.
ID & Secure Document News aims to support the development of identity and secure document systems by fostering communications and providing information. The editor acknowledges the importance of discretion and, in seeking to advance the interests of the community, does not publish articles which could be damaging to any organisation or individual unless this information is already in the public domain or it is in the wider interests of the ID and secure document community to do so.
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