Graphic Security Systems, Corp.

LAKE WORTH, Fla. – October 13, 2010 – Graphic Security Systems Corporation (GSSC) announced today that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of State (DoS) to supply and integrate its steganographic technology and software for the U.S. Passport Card. The award to GSSC is part of DoS' mandate to increase the level of security and fraud-detection capabilities for this important travel document.

GSSC has provided its steganographic technology to government agencies, security printing firms and major corporations for almost thirty years. GSSC owns 23 U.S. patents and many additional patents worldwide in the steganographic area. These patents cover embedding, scrambling, hiding, encoding and decoding methods and software, as well as optical and digital authentication devices. The company is headquartered in Lake Worth, Florida.

LAKE WORTH, Fla. – January 25, 2010 – Graphic Security Systems Corporation (GSSC) and Sun Chemical have signed a license agreement that utilizes Sun Chemical’s proprietary security solutions with GSSC’s technologies, expanding capabilities to authenticate branded consumer products and increase protection levels against counterfeiters.

"Brand owners and consumers are increasingly concerned about the security of critical supply chains," said Jim Reiman, Director of Sales for Sun Chemical’s Brand Protection business. "Those particularly at risk include products such as pharma, cosmetics, personal care, distilled spirits, tobacco, etc. There are very few other industries untouched by counterfeiting, adulteration, diversion and tampering. Our partnership with GSSC and the utilization of their patented encoding and authentication processes will further improve security options for our customers."

"This alliance brings much more than technology," said Scott Perkins, Chief Operating Officer, GSSC. "Our service and the integrity of our products are now further expanded on a global scale and we look forward to working with the entire Sun Chemical team to achieve mutual goals."

Sun Chemical's Verigard security product is a proprietary machine-readable covert taggant system used to protect some of the world’s most recognized consumer products from counterfeiting and diversion. Verigard is Sun Chemical’s highest level security system and authenticity is ensured by using the V400 handheld reader. Other innovative covert, machine readable authentication products are available such as inks or coatings to address counterfeit, diversion and smuggling issues. Products yield a distinct "signature" and are detected by a small reading device.

"GSSC and their enhanced portfolio of patented products and technologies are unmatched in the industry," Reiman said. "They have an extraordinary technical team and we look forward to a successful partnership with them in the future."

PARIS, November 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The smart card industry has once again recognized the innovation capacity of Oberthur Technologies by selecting the product ID-One(TM) Sky as finalist for the Sesame award for the best application in the identification category at the Cartes 2009 trade fair in Paris.

Following the lead of the electronic passport, the smart card is being confirmed as the only technology capable of reliably strengthening the security of any type of identity document: national identity cards, resident permits, driving licenses, etc. While electronic features provide most of this enhanced security, the card body itself must support physical security features to allow reliable authentication of a document when the chip cannot be read.

ID-One(TM) Sky is a completely novel kind of physical security feature stemming from collaboration between Oberthur Technologies, Graphic Security Systems Corporation and Alain Boucar, Chief Superintendent of the Belgian Federal Police.

An ID-One(TM) Sky card is made from polycarbonate, an extremely robust material especially suited for use over several years. It includes a transparent window which is a decoder for invisible markings present on the photo of another card. Two ID-One(TM) Sky cards authenticate each other by laying the transparent window of one over the cardholder photo of the other. Hidden data are then revealed and any tampering with the photo is immediately detected. For the first time, a level 2 invisible security feature can be directly verified in the field without any specific or complex tool.

Hidden Indicia(TM), a patented Scrambled Indicia(R) technology developed by Graphic Security Systems Corporation, allows invisible data to be integrated into a photo. It is already used on several identity documents such as the new Belgium electronic passport manufactured by Oberthur Technologies.

Integration of a decoding transparent window in a polycarbonate smart card body requires the combined mastery of several technologies unique to fiduciary printers and smart card manufacturers. Oberthur Technologies is one of the few companies worldwide in command of such know-how.

"We have always worked very closely with the key players in the identity document security market. This makes it possible for us to offer our customers the latest generation of products for their projects," explains Jerome Lena, Product Manager at Oberthur Technologies Identity Division.

"Security of a document is closely related to the ability of the first line to control it. Oberthur Technologies has a good grasp of this issue and ID-One(TM) Sky is the first identity document which allows us to integrate a second line dimension at the time of verification," says Alain Boucar, Chief Superintendent of the Belgian federal police.

LAKE WORTH, Fla. USA - March 24, 2008 - Graphic Security Systems Corporation (GSSC) and F. C. Oberthur (FCO) have teamed to produce the world's first self-authenticating passport. It was introduced in the new Belgian passport released on February 1, 2008. FCO, the French security printer which produces the Belgian passport, has added an optical decoder page in the passport opposite the data page. When placed over the photo, the decoder page verifies the presence of GSSC’s Scrambled Indicia feature hidden in the holder’s photo. The Scrambled Indicia feature reveals any fraudulent changes to the photo or information printed on the data page.

"Scrambled Indicia, like all covert features, requires a tool to be checked," said Thomas C. Alasia, president and COO, GSSC. "Oberthur’s innovative production of a decoder page puts the tool right into the hands of passport inspectors anywhere in the world, making this a true first-line-of-defense security feature”. Lars Gabel, director ID/Document Security, GSSC, adds: “Passport fraud is 95% photo substitution. If you can stop that, you have effectively stopped passport fraud. The Scrambled Indicia technology has protected millions of passports around the world since 1982. Now, with this self-checking technology FCO and GSSC have made it possible for any inspector to verify the authenticity of the passport on the spot and first-time.”

In addition to providing effective protection of passports, GSSC’s patented self-authentication technology has tremendous potential for brand protection and other documents where security is a priority such as bank notes.