The days of needing clients to sign documents in person or through the post are over. Digital signature solutions make document approval workflows faster while improving inaccuracies and guarding against loss.
Ascertia’s ADSS Signing Server and SigningHub products enable business transformations through:
- Enhanced security – PKI-based encryption and two-factor authentication protecting documents against unauthorised access
- Long-term validation and archival – Removing the risk of damage or loss associated with traditional paper-based processes
- Legality and non-repudiation – Esignatures are legally recognised as the equivalent of handwritten signatures. Ascertia ensures non-repudiation by protecting against tampering with PKI-based encryption, embedded document evidence and complete audit trails.
- Improved compliance – Audit trails to demonstrate document retention, acccess and privacy compliance
- Increased efficiency – One of the benefits of going digital is harnessing efficiency gains. Ascertia’s digital signature solutions increase signing process efficiency, enabling you to complete transactions faster.
The legal sector must comply with various laws and regulations depending on where they operate. Non-compliance could mean severe consequences for solicitors and be costly.
Ascertia’s products support compliance with the following global data protection regulations and laws:
- EU – General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- UK – Data Protection Act 2018
- US – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- US – California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
- Canada – Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
In addition to data protection regulations, Ascertia’s products also support industry-specific compliance, including:
- Attorney-client privilege
- US – Modern Rules of Professional Conduct
- Canada – Solicitor-client privilege
- England & Wales – The Law Society of England and Wales Code of Conduct
- Scotland – The Law Society of Scotland Practise Rules
These are just a small selection of the industry-specific and data protection regulations Ascertia’s products adhere to. For a full list, please contact our team for further information.
Ascertia’s products offer the most extensive support for digital signature formats and standards, as well as the greatest implementation flexibility. Our products support the following document types:
- PDF
- XML
- PKCS#11
- CMS
- S/MIME
- PKCS#1
Ascertia provides strong identity assurance and the ability to gran access to systems and applications over a mutually authenticated SSL connection. This process usually works in tandem with IAM systems.
Ascertia is a clear industry leader in long-term digital signatures. Long-term archival and validation enables organisations to undeniably prove who signed a document and when it was signed. This technology is underpinned by PKI-based encryption and document details embedded directly into the document.
We support the following profiles:
- ETSI XAdES
- CAdES
- PAdES (PDF format)
Ascertia’s SigningHub makes it easy to add multiple signers into one document. Setting up the document approval workflow so that it moves to the next signer in the chain is effortless.
Learn more about about Ascertia’s SigningHub.