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The Document security Alliance (DSA) has released a set of principles that its members hope will provide critical guidance to state and federal issuers of identification documents as they work to improve the security of their IDs. The principles include identification of key processes and best practices. These principles identify and recommend improvements to elements of the ID issuing process, the ID credential itself, and subsequent authentication of IDs as they are used.
The DSA is a public/private partnership of government agencies and private industry created to identify ways of improving the security of critical documents. Members of the DSA include the U.S. secret Service, the Transportation security Administration, U.S. Departments of State, Treasury and Homeland security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators and representatives from more than 60 companies in the secure document industry.
The DSA has identified five key process elements of secure...