The whole point of security printing is to disrupt the efforts of counterfeiters and other bad players. While its traditional purview is the banking, financial, insurance, or government sectors, the preponderance of hacking, forgery, and counterfeiting, and the ease with which it is accomplished, means that businesses of all stripes face constant assault in the battle to keep their information or products secure. 

The prevalence of digital communications in the financial and related industries, as well the evolution to a cashless society might counter some of the counterfeiters’ efforts—is printing fake banknotes still a profitable operation?—security printing is still a critical enterprise.

There is a need for a broader definition of what security printing means and for a greater number of print providers to think of themselves as “security printers.” Maybe instead it should be called “secure printing.”