Digital signature solutions for advanced levels of security

For advanced levels of security, digitally sign documents using hardware smart card token-based two-factor authentication to ensure non-repudiation. This is being taken up and made use of by some of the world's biggest tech firms to great effect as a means to allow them to handle documents in a much much safer manner. As organizations move from paper toward digital business process and initiatives, Adobe and SafeNet offer a secure, portable simple to use solution that streamlines business process and reduces time and costs associated with traditional paper-based document signing.

Digital signatures are something else entirely. A digital signature is cryptographically secure and verifies that someone with your private signing key (in other words, you) has seen the document and authorized it. A digital signature is way more secure than a traditional ink signature or a signature image overlaid on top of a PDF document. But we won’t be using those here. Why? The answer is simple — most people are expecting a document with a little scribble of ink on it. Send them a PDF file with a digital signature and they won’t know what to make of it. For many businesses, simply accepting signed documents by email rather than forcing you to fax them is a huge technological leap.

Becoming a digital enterprise is well within the reach of every company. Using e-signatures is one important element in improving how you engage with customers, partners, and employees. But to meet everyone’s needs, you’ll need the flexibility of offering e-signature capability through different channels (online, in-store, in-person, etc.) and different devices. It can also be tracked to good effect in an easy way and the data all backed up in an easy way also.

Electronic signature solutions have therefore come into their own in recent times and this has in turn been seen to help a business in the management in key areas of their overall admin management - and to great overall effect.

In any case, such an enterprise platform enables you to choose the best solution for every channel, business process, and department need, while still maintaining all the advantages of a homogeneous platform. For example, you can deploy native apps for your field agents, browser-based e-signing on signature pads for branch offices, and email documents for end customers to sign online on any web-enabled device.