SECURE IDENTITIES: SECURE AVIATION
Governments are moving towards an intelligence-driven, risk-based approach to aviation security, replacing the one size fits all approach. In order to normalise this approach for the majority of passengers, their data has to be verifiable, accurate and secure. Matthew Finn outlines some of the security measures in place to protect travel documents.
this year, both Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and John Pistole, Administrator of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), highlighted the importance of the US’ Trusted Traveller Programs to the future of aviation security. Secretary Napolitano set out the Department’s vision to drive the adoption of these programmes up
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to 25% (1 in 4), up from the current 8% (1 in 12), over the course of the next 2-3 years. Ultimately, the goal is to ensure that the next era will expand and accelerate the global movement towards an intelligence- driven, risk-based approach to security, using identity management and key passenger information to make the best possible use of advancing technologies to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of limited resources.
If government and industry are to successfully collaborate and deliver this vision, it will be vital to understand the critically important role Machine- Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs) will play in establishing and verifying the identities of the millions of passengers who travel through airports and cross international borders every single day of the year.
Programmes such as TSA Pre✓™, Global Entry, SENTRI and NEXUS, which offer expedited
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King Artaxerxes I of Persia may well have been the first person to carry a passport
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experiences to those passengers who volunteer to provide certain personal information prior to travel, will be important programmes to monitor as we advance the global rollout
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of identity-based schemes for both aviation security and the automation of border control procedures.
Historical Perspective But before we look to the future, it’s important we consider the past to better understand the evolution of establishing an individual’s identity and the evolution of one of the most useful identity documents that exists today – the passport. Identity management is not a new practice. Dating back to Antiquity, the ancient empires of Egypt, Greece and Rome all captured birth records, typically for the purposes of collecting taxes and conscripting citizens into the service of the military. For its part, the concept of a passport dates back some 2500 years to one of the earliest recorded references to a “Letter of Safe Passage” issued by the Persian King Artaxerxes. Some 2000 years later in 1414, the United Kingdom passed “The Safe Conducts Act”, making reference to the earliest passports during the reign of King Henry V. One of these, issued on 18 June 1641 and signed by King Charles I, still exists today.
April 2013 Aviationsecurityinternational
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