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Ascertia, the leader in high-trust digital signatures and PKI solutions, is pleased to announce it has appointed Malek Bechlaghem as Managing Director for the MENA region.

Digital signatures are supposed to make life easier, more secure and efficient. Certainly, when compared to signing with a pen and paper they are fantastic but imagine digitally signing hundreds, thousands or even millions of documents a day! Opening each document and signing with your mouse can be pretty tedious, even for tens of documents. There has to be a better way, and indeed there is, cue ‘bulk signing’.

In this blog, we discuss how Ascertia's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) helps implement the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Smart Vaccination Certificates (SVCs).

It has become increasingly evident that to open up economies whilst ensuring the Covid-19 infection rate remains under control requires a mechanism whereby a person can present a document that proves they have received a vaccine.

In this blog, we discuss our efforts to secure an eIDAS-certified remote qualified signature creation device (QSCD).

We want to let you into a little secret. Since Sep 2017, Ascertia has been actively pursuing a Common Criteria EAL4+ certification of its ADSS Server “Signature Activation Module (SAM)” Appliance.

Last year’s IoT Solutions World Congress was an opportunity for the industry to focus on the increasing influence of the Internet of Things in PKI planning. We attended the event with our technology partner Thales e-Security, which has just published the 2017 Global PKI Trends report with the Ponemon Institute looking at trends across 11 countries.

This article discusses the features that should be on a highly desirable feature list when looking for an OCSP Responder product. Although the main focus of this topic is technical, there are commercial aspects that need consideration. These are summarised briefly at the end. The technical features explained here are all available and implemented in Ascertia ADSS OCSP Server, which is downloadable on trial basis.

Does your business require digital signatures to be verifiable months, years or even decades later? In this blog, we discuss long-term signatures and what you should look for when choosing a provider.

In this blog, we discuss certificate transparency and how it can help quickly detect fraudulent certificates.

SSL trust issues

India's National Informatics Centre (NIC) has joined the infamous Dutch CA DigiNotar in issuing fake and unauthorised digital certificates. Yet again, this activity damages the faith we place in Certification Authorities (CAs) to provide high-trust identity assurance.

Certificate whitelist checking is a must. Usage of PKI-based digital certificates has become a widely accepted means of electronic identity authentication for all kinds of purposes, from logical and physical access control to document signing, server authentication for ecommerce sites and software code authentication.