The latest guest blog from the Ascertia partner community comes courtesy of Stefan Claeys, Managing Partner at KeySign who discusses the e-signature landscape, smart cards and remote signing.

Ascertia provides an integrated solution for PKI and digital signature trust service components. Organisations can safely manage digital identities across their corporate networks and migrate paper-intensive processes to the digital world by using Ascertia’s products to digitally sign on the desktop, mobile or via an automated server.

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.

This year we are excited to celebrate Ascertia’s 20th anniversary!

Quantum computing is being discussed more and more within businesses, but what is it, how does it work and what effect will it have over digital trust services?

A Trust Service Provider (TSP) is an entity that provides any number of trust services involved with the creation, validation and preservation of e-signatures, e-seals or digital certificates.

What is the Cloud Signature Consortium (CSC)?

Ascertia is a CSC member, a group of industry and academic organisations committed to building a new standard for cloud-based digital signatures that will support web and mobile applications and comply with the most demanding electronic signature regulations in the world. The CSC was created to develop common protocols so that distributed applications and services can leverage digital signatures in a non-proprietary way.

Nothing is more important than a company’s data. There is also no larger risk in today’s digital economy to business continuity and regulatory compliance.

As experts in high-trust solutions, we are often asked about the benefits of commercial off the shelf products versus seemingly more affordable Software Development Kits, Open Source libraries or third party pre-compiled libraries or binaries. 

We have become the first company in the world to pass the Common Criteria EAL4+ evaluation process against the standard EN 419 241-2 for our ADSS SAM hardware appliance, a remote Qualified Signature Creation Device (QSCD). This provides the highest level of confidence that users have sole control over their signing keys held on central servers or in the cloud.