New Generation Security Holograms In the fight against fake IDs, its value is priceless Fake identity documents and the ‘skills’ of counterfeiters to reproduce passports, driving licenses and other official papers that look like the real thing to the untrained eye, Dr Paul Dunn, chairman of the International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA), considers the latest developments in security and authentication holography. These include Surys’ Spectreod, which scooped the Innovation in Holographic Technology category at the Excellence in Holography Award 2018, for its advanced utilisation of phase shifting micro-optic authentication elements. This enables the viewer to pick out and identify information using a smartphone light source. When observed at a direct angle, Spectreod is recog- nisable to the naked eye, but when it comes under a light source, pre-selected floating coloured information appears that follows the movement of the light. This can help to confirm the authentication of a document at a glance. The company has also continued to further expand their DID (diffractive identity device) technology platform with a portfolio of products for identity applications including their latest DID Wave and DID Virtual products.