<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[SECOIA Executive Consultants AG]]></title><description><![CDATA[SECOIA is a Swiss advisory network providing mentoring, advice and support to security sensitive clients, both in public and private sector.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/news</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:56:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.secoia-excon.com/fr/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Borders must be both secure and humane. The document framework for achieving both is under review. #09]]></title><description><![CDATA[The answer is not to choose between security and humanity. 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Country B can’t read it. The biometric border just became a wall. #07]]></title><description><![CDATA[A biometric system that cannot interoperate is not a security system. It is an expensive database.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/country-a-captures-a-fingerprint-country-b-can-t-read-it-the-biometric-border-just-became-a-wall07</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d6a01ca51db32c14c052ce</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[App Notification | ID Intelligence #011 — Launched in AppStore ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Update to v1.4.4: Faster startup, better sync. HOT PROMOTION - get the new version from the store and click-into PRO for 1 year at 50%. Act before the offer ends.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/app-notification-2026-04-17-001</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e280fba96d49e56ebdb4b6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:56:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3e03e6_cba7dcf65b49433fb0368aa29fa6319a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_693,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most expensive line in a national ID tender isn’t a price. 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What it didn’t have was boundaries. #03]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before a single interview is conducted or a single document reviewed, the most important decision in any identity programme advisory engagement has already been made — or hasn’t. That decision is scope. How many institutions will be assessed? How many site visits conducted? What grade of detail is expected in the analysis? What volume of documents will be reviewed? These are not administrative details. They are the boundaries that determine whether the project delivers insight or delivers...]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/every-failed-identity-programme-had-a-plan-what-it-didn-t-have-was-boundaries03</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ce5e2c719295076f2c06b8</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ID Intelligence: Your Industry Briefing. One App. Every Morning.]]></title><description><![CDATA[SECOIA Executive Consultants AG launches ID Intelligence — a free iOS app that delivers a single, topic-filtered news feed from the most trusted publishers in identity management, biometrics, border security, and secure document technology.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/id-intelligence-your-industry-briefing-one-app-every-morning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3cc1ef433568818447959f</guid><category><![CDATA[Company News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><category><![CDATA[Events]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:20:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3e03e6_cba7dcf65b49433fb0368aa29fa6319a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_693,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody reads your 500-page system documentation. That’s not a filing problem. It’s a project risk. #02]]></title><description><![CDATA[If your system documentation can't be read in an afternoon, it won't be read at all.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/nobody-reads-your-500-page-system-documentation-that-s-not-a-filing-problem-it-s-a-project-risk-02</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ce5eb240e74dbec4fdfa7e</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting Document Fraud: Think from the Other End]]></title><description><![CDATA[We keep asking "how secure is this document?" We should be asking "how good does a counterfeit need to be to pass undetected?"
The answer is uncomfortable: good enough. Not perfect — just good enough for the specific check, the specific environment, the specific person performing it under pressure. Designing systems that hold under those real conditions, not ideal ones, is where the fight against document fraud is actually won or lost.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/fighting-document-fraud-think-from-the-other-end</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2c034ef7064a4e83d51069</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:00:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3e03e6_f75742503bb2448cb3b0745b569f9ea6~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birth certificate is the most dangerous document in your identity system #01]]></title><description><![CDATA[The birth certificate is the most dangerous document in your identity system.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/the-birth-certificate-is-the-most-dangerous-document-in-your-identity-system01</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ce5f206def0df73ca9970a</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[In thirty years, the technology has changed completely. The reasons programmes fail have not changed at all.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first electronic identity card our founding partner helped deliver used a chip that held 32 kilobytes of data. Today’s secure documents carry biometric templates, digital signatures, and cryptographic keys that would have been unimaginable a generation ago. The technology has transformed beyond recognition: In thirty years, the technology has changed completely. The reasons programmes fail have not changed at all.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/in-thirty-years-the-technology-has-changed-completely-the-reasons-programmes-fail-have-not-changed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f302dbbc2ce3253fd422c6</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:00:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your competitor just lost a CHF 50M tender. Not because their product was worse. Because their bid didn’t speak the language of the specification.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the secure document and identity technology market, the distance between winning and losing a sovereign tender is rarely about product superiority. It is about specification alignment, context, understanding the pain points and addressing the various stakeholders: Does your bid team read the standards — or just reference them?]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/your-competitor-just-lost-a-chf-50m-tender-not-because-their-product-was-worse-because-their-bid-d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f307287cb0726b2daf61a5</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:00:16 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are five moments in the life of a national identity programme when independent advisory pays for itself ten times over. Most governments miss all five.]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are five moments in the life of a national identity programme when independent advisory pays for itself ten times over. Most governments miss all five. Not every phase of an identity programme requires external expertise. But there are five windows where the absence of independent advisory consistently leads to decisions that cost years and millions to reverse.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/there-are-five-moments-in-the-life-of-a-national-identity-programme-when-independent-advisory-pays-f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f30740bc2ce3253fd42c0c</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 07:30:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The project kicked off on Monday. By Wednesday, three stakeholders had different understandings of the objective.]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is the default condition of complex, multi-stakeholder identity programme advisory — and it is the single most reliable predictor of downstream failure: Teamwork before taskwork. Alignment before analysis. Agreement before assessment.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/the-project-kicked-off-on-monday-by-wednesday-three-stakeholders-had-different-understandings-of-t</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f302ee07a67a09ac7b9a51</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 07:30:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Digital Identity Wallet will let you prove who you are anywhere in the EU. Unless the document that made you “you” was fraudulent.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Digital Identity Wallet will let you prove who you are anywhere in the EU. Unless the document that made you “you” was fraudulent: A wallet is a delivery mechanism. A breeder document is a trust anchor.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/the-european-digital-identity-wallet-will-let-you-prove-who-you-are-anywhere-in-the-eu-unless-the-d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f303057cb0726b2daf5915</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:30:12 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publishing guidance is not capacity building. If it were, every country with internet access would have a secure identity system.]]></title><description><![CDATA[ICAO’s Traveller Identification Programme — TRIP — represents one of the most ambitious capacity building efforts in the identity and border management space. Its objective: to help 193 member states implement the standards, systems, and institutional capabilities required for secure and efficient traveller identification.

The challenge is not ambition. It is delivery. Publishing guidance is not capacity building. Information is not capability.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/publishing-guidance-is-not-capacity-building-if-it-were-every-country-with-internet-access-would-h</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f3031cbc2ce3253fd4234a</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:30:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine thousand professionals. One conversation. No sales pitches.]]></title><description><![CDATA[LinkedIn group “ICAO ePassports and eID Cards”: Nine thousand professionals. One conversation. No sales pitches.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/nine-thousand-professionals-one-conversation-no-sales-pitches</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f30330d3f2ae6dd918f18d</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 07:30:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot digitise an identity system that doesn’t know who was born, who died, and who married whom.]]></title><description><![CDATA[You cannot digitise an identity system that doesn’t know who was born, who died, and who married whom. Civil registration and identity document issuance are treated as separate systems in most countries. Different ministries. Different budgets. Different databases. Different political priorities.]]></description><link>https://www.secoia-excon.com/post/you-cannot-digitise-an-identity-system-that-doesn-t-know-who-was-born-who-died-and-who-married-who</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f303427cb0726b2daf5996</guid><category><![CDATA[Educative]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 07:30:09 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>SECOIA</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>