The International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, a trade group focused on reducing counterfeiting, estimates that US business loses $200 billion annually due to counterfeit products. In addition to this large economic impact, counterfeiting also has significant safety implications in applications such anti-tamper and anti-tamper as auto parts, aircraft parts, and military parts. Numerous fatal automobile and aircraft accidents have been attributed to counterfeit parts. Whether the application is brand protection, quality control or security; the economic value anti-tamper of Keymaster''s technology to customers is substantial. Today quality management is a systems approach involving people, processes, leadership and continous improvement principles; all driving toward providing customers products and services that meet their needs on time every time and at the right anti-tamper price.

The first Metals Analysis Probe (MAP) portable XRF instrument was used at the Church anti-tamper Rock mine in New Mexico and in a U.S. patent was issued for the instrument. Now, keymaster, Inc. (KTI) has world-leading patent-pending technology in the areas of X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and elemental taggant technology. The company is pioneering the application of these technologies in the fields of brand protection/authentication, anti-counterfeiting, anti-tamper security, loss prevention and quality control. The world leader in digital watermarking solutions, today introduced Copy Detection, a covert anti-tamper and anti-tamper security feature that can be applied to packaging, labels, tags and other printed documents, and tools anti-tamper to facilitate field inspection of suspected counterfeit goods. Through patented techniques in digital watermarking.

Further, all of these techniques can be defeated in some way because all are image processing systems. In this digital age, images can be easily copied or created. For example, field studies have shown that finger recognition can have a failure rate as high as 50%. Facial recognition, on uncooperative individuals, has a failure rate of 100%. Covert elemental XRF tagging is a patent pending technology that does not suffer from the common weaknesses associated with most biometric methods. Using elemental tagging and XRF detection it is possible and inexpensive to implement ultra secure, easily validated personnel access and identity documents. This technology provides an additional level of security through covert tagging anti-tamper and can be effectively used in conjunction with typical finger scan or hand geometry biometric techniques.

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