Tuesday, February 23, 2010

GlobalSign to Demonstrate Legally Compliant Digital Signature Solutions at CSO Council Bay Area Round Table Event

GlobalSign will demonstrate the benefits of using digital signature solutions from an evidence and identity perspective in the eye of the federal court system, at the upcoming CSO Council Bay Area Round Table Event

Portsmouth, NH (PRWEB) February 24, 2010 -- GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certificate Authorities (CA) and specialists in Digital Identities for securing electronic documents including Adobe PDFs, will meet with security professionals from the San Francisco area at the upcoming 10th annual CSO Council Bay Area Round Table event. Members of the CSO Council Bay Area and invited guests will gather together for a round table event to discuss the merits of electronic signatures versus digital signatures from a legal perspective in the federal court system. As a participant, GlobalSign will provide firsthand insight into the legal validity of digital signatures and participate in the discussion to support the expansion of digital signatures within the legal arena.

As a leading digital certificate provider, GlobalSign supports the expansion of digital signatures into the U.S. court system and will convey the benefits and opportunities of implementing reliable and legally binding digital signatures by demonstrating its digital signature and document signing solution, branded as DocumentSign. Solutions like DocumentSign can provide the federal court system the opportunity to eliminate the use of easily forge-able handwritten judges’ signatures on various juridical orders and implement trusted digital signatures which are highly resistant to tampering and can be verified at any time unlike a traditional handwritten signature.

“This milestone sends a strong message of confidence to judges and most importantly to general counsels and lawyers throughout the United States: it is acceptable -- in fact, desirable -- to use digital signatures"
GlobalSign’s DocumentSign Digital ID solution allows individuals and departmental entities to digitally sign, certify and approve Adobe PDF documents. As an authorized participant in Adobe’s Certified Document Services (CDS) program, GlobalSign must operate under a stringent set of policies and standards developed by Adobe and audited by WebTrust, to allow GlobalSign to issue Adobe recognized CDS Certificates. GlobalSign’s DocumentSign for Adobe PDF offers long-term, legally admissible, easily accepted, and legally compliant digital signatures.

Applying a GlobalSign Digital Signature to an electronic document allows the recipient of the document to know:

 
  • Who signed the document - proving the document has come from a valid source
  • That the document has not been tampered with - providing assurance that can be verified at any time
  • What time the document was signed - reliably showing when the document was issued.
providing strong authentication, data integrity, and non repudiation. DocumentSign users can add Certifying and Approval Signatures to PDFs using the free Adobe Reader 6.0+ without installing any new plug-ins, or confusing configurations for a secure and cost-effective solution.

“Since launching DocumentSign for Adobe Secure PDF, GlobalSign has seen various companies and industries implement the solution into their workflow to take advantage of the improved workflow processes, as well as meet various compliance regulations among healthcare, government, and financial industries,” says Lila Kee, Director of Product Marketing, GlobalSign, Inc. “We are delighted to be part of the CSO Council’s round table event to discuss the opportunities available for digital signature solutions in the federal court systems, highlighting the legally equivalent benefits DocumentSign has to offer.”

“This milestone sends a strong message of confidence to judges and most importantly to general counsels and lawyers throughout the United States: it is acceptable -- in fact, desirable -- to use digital signatures, so long as they are highly reliable and persistently verifiable,” said Jacques Francoeur, Sr. Director, Identity and Information Assurance at SAIC Commercial Business Services, who is credited for orchestrating this event.

The 10th annual CSO Council Bay Area Round Table event will be held March 1 in San Francisco, California at Adobe’s corporate office.

For more information about GlobalSign’s digital certificate solutions, please visit: https://www.globalsign.com/document-security-compliance/adobe-cds/

About The CSO Council Bay Area:
The CSO Council Bay Area is a non-profit organization made up of individuals in Chief Security Officer or equivalent operations or strategic security positions with the mission to enhance the CSO Community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Every year the CSO Council holds a round table format meeting enabling members to share their views and provide directional input on matters of discussion. This year the round table event discussion is electronic signatures versus digital signatures in the eye of the federal court systems. Discussions will touch upon the pros and cons of electronic and digital signatures both from an identity and evidence perspective.

About GlobalSign:
Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL Certificates, EV SSL, Managed SSL Services, S/MIME email security and Code Signing for use on all platforms including mobile devices. Its Trusted Root solution uses the widely embedded GlobalSign Root CA certificates to provide immediate PKI trust for Microsoft Certificate Services and internal PKI, eliminating the costs of using untrusted Root Certificates. Its partnership with Adobe to provide Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF documents, certified transcripts and e-invoices. These core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of authenticated customers to conduct secure online transactions, data transfer, distribution of tamper-proof code, and protection of online identities for secure email and access control. The company has a history of innovation within the online security industry and has offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, and China.
GMO Internet Group

GMO Internet Group, headquartered in Japan, is a leading force in the Internet industry offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of Internet services worldwide. The group holds top domestic market share in domain registration, web hosting, and payment processing and provides a host of other Internet services including global online security services, e-commerce solutions, and Internet advertising to both businesses and individuals. At the centre of the group is GMO Internet, Inc. a company listed on the prestigious first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE: 9449). Please visit www.gmo.jp/en for further details.
For further details please contact:

Steve Waite
GlobalSign
603-570-7060 / 1-877-SSLGLOBAL
press (at) globalsign (dot) com


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1 comment:

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