Recent reports from security firms that have identified serious flaws in RFID tag security have caused unrest within the supply chain industry 

German firm DN-Systems demonstrated a technique at the Defcon security conference that enabled its researchers to clone tags, which has the potential to compromise pallet security in supply chain environments and hold back the adoption of RFID technology.

Otto Kilb, Strategic Business Development Manager for EMEA at Printronix, doesn't agree with this view:  "No technology is 100 per cent secure, and it seems that RFID is the latest innovative technology to come under scrutiny from the security doom-mongers.  I applaud the security firms for identifying these potential flaws, but that is all they are - potential flaws.

"The supply chain has faced such risks for years, as barcodes were never 100 per cent secure, but the business advantages RFID brings to the market far outweigh the risks.  Gen 2 tags incorporate strict security protocols (such as passwords to protect against counterfeiting) and security firms are developing techniques to increase encryption methods to protect critical data.  This is only the tip of the ice-berg has additional tag security features are being developed continually, so while there are risks there really isn't any reason to panic. Take sensible precautions and your data should be safe."