RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher PharmaTech, a publication for pharmaceutical manufacturers, reports that the Council of the EU and the European Parliament are amending the current anti-counterfeiting directive to include a requirement for features that enable the identification, authentication and traceability of prescription medicines. “The only way a specific product can be identified, authenticated and [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Tomorrow, May 12, is the next RFID Security Alliance Meeting (via phone or in-person).  SecureRF CEO, Louis Parks, will be talking about his RFID security talk at last month’s INTERPHEX Pharmaceutical conference.  Other RFIDSA members are speaking about the conferences they have recently participated in.  See Insights into the Spring Conference Season for [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The New York Times recently had an Op-Ed piece titled “Are You Buying Illegal Drugs?” The contributors are Katherine Eban, the author of “Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters and the Contamination of America’s Drug Supply” and J. Aaron Graham, a former agent for the Food and Drug [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher  It’s official.  SecureRF has been awarded a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation to continue our work developing a secure, passive RFID tag that meets EPCglobal protocols.  The development of a secure passive RFID tag will provide the pharmaceutical industry, which handles nearly four billion prescriptions in [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The Security Research Group (SRG) of the BRIDGE project has put together a white paper called RFID Tag Security. You can view a copy of it here – http://www.bridge-project.eu/data/File/BridgesecuritypaperDL_9.pdf.  The objective of the report was to review their current RFID tag security activities and investigate future requirements.  It doesn’t report [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Louis Parks, SecureRF’s CEO, wrote an article for PharmaTech.com’s Equipment and Processing Report titled Pharmaceutical Packaging and ePedigree Requirements. The article includes a list of questions the pharmaceutical industry must answer before it can select and implement an ePedigree solution. Due to space limitations parts of the article were edited out.  Because [...]

Submitted by Joanne C. Kelleher Last week I attended part of the INTERPHEX Conference which offered “technology solutions and education for every aspect of drug manufacturing from process development through delivery to market.” I was there to see the panel presentation put on by members of the RFID Security Alliance and moderated by SecureRF’s CEO, [...]