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.
Interesting statistics from the 2017 Global PKI Trends Study
Ascertia products unaffected by the ROBOT attack
Recently a vulnerability in the implementation of TLS protocol has been found called ROBOT (Return Of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat).
This is the return of a 19-year-old vulnerability that allows RSA decryption and signing operations with the private key of a TLS server.
Ascertia highly commended at the 2017 UK industry Awards
We’re pleased to announce that Ascertia has been ‘Highly Commended’ at this year’s UK IT Industry Awards in the Cloud Innovation Provider of the Year category!
Are you compliant with the EU VAT Directive?
Is your business compliant with the EU VAT Directive? Companies trading within the EU must comply with countless regulations every day, including directives specifically relating to VAT and electronic invoicing.
OCSP Responder - the must have features!
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.
Long-term signatures - the essential features
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.
PEPPOL quality trust ratings explained
PEPPOL is a large-scale European Commission project, working on allowing any company in the EU to be able to communicate electronically with any EU governmental institution for all procurement processes.
ETSI PAdES - explored and explained
Within Europe a new digital signature format “PAdES” is gaining traction. PAdES stands for “PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures” and is a set of standards published by ETSI (TS 102 778 parts 1 to 5) to support European requirements for electronic signatures. The purpose is specifically for creation of long-term signatures that are verifiable for years or even decades.

