subject: Security options for your Corporate ID Cards [print this page] Security options for your Corporate ID Cards
Odds are that most commercial and non profit organizations are extremely worried about ensuring that both their staff members and their facilities are kept secure. Large national and international corporations, middle sized companies, small business organizations, churches, colleges, clubs, libraries, hospitals and universities have, since the despairing events of September 2001, made their best efforts in trying to ensure that only authorized personnel enters their facilities and, for instance has access to certain restricted areas and to their computer network system.
According to the particular characteristics of each business organization, there are multiple options of ID card systems available in the market that companies can choose from. From the most basic laminated ID badges with only the employees' full name, photo, position and company to the highly sophisticated HID cards companies can nowadays have more or less control of their security. And what is even more, there are many ID card systems that enable business managers and owners to even customize the security options to detail, determining employee by employee who has access to certain facilities and who has not.
Everybody is well aware of the fact that forgers and scammers are always on the look of off guard preys to violate their security. Therefore, it is a well known rule of thumb that the simpler and less sophisticated your ID card system is, it will be easier for them to forge, tamper or copy your ID cards. In other words, the more additional features you incorporate in your identification badges, the more expensive and difficult you make it for scammers to copy your cards as they require more complex equipment to copy your cards.
In fact, this may be the main reason why business organizations of all sizes are used to incorporating more than one security feature. In this scenario, the options available in the market are widely varied and their cost differs according to their complexity and sophistication: dual sided card printing, full color printing, small text encoding, magnetic stripes, magnetic bars and so on are some of the most popular choices companies make to increase the security of their cards.
Adding holograms to the surface of the ID badge is also growing increasingly popular as many card printers enable business managers to do so without having to buy any additional module. Holograms can be easily customized and enable security guards to visually determine in an instant way whether the ID card the card bearer is showing is false or real.
