Digital Trust at a Crossroads: Reflections on the CSC Trust Without Borders Summit 2026

By Enrique Enciso, Regional Sales Manager — Latin America, GMO GlobalSign 

I have been working in technology sales across Latin America for nearly two decades. In that time, I have sat across from countless CISOs, IT directors, and IT teams in markets stretching from Mexico to the Southern Cone, and I have watched digital security move from a line item that required justification to a strategic imperative for all organizations. So, when I say that something felt different at the CSC Trust Without Borders Summit 2026 in Bogotá, I mean it. The conversations at the CSC Trust Without Borders Summit 2026 reflected a community that understands the stakes and is actively working to meet them. 

I left Bogotá with pages of notes, a stronger network, and a renewed sense of why this work matters. 

Regulation and Digital Signatures: 

The Challenge I See Every Day. From the discussions around cross-border interoperability and regulatory alignment, digital identity wallets and portable trust, pressure from the growing reliance on AI, to preparing for Post-Quantum Encryption, the event truly captured some of the digital identity industry’s pressing issues. Every market I cover — Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and the others — is at a different stage of developing or updating its legal framework for electronic and digital signatures. What is legally valid in one country may not be recognized in another. What satisfies compliance requirements today may need to be revisited when a new decree or standard comes into force next year. The digital trust landscape is genuinely complex, and it is exactly the kind of complexity that does not get resolved by any single vendor or any single government. It requires the kind of multi-stakeholder conversations that the CSC Trust Without Borders Summit made possible. Sitting in those sessions, I found myself nodding along, knowing a room full of people who share the same challenges and are serious about solving them together. 

One theme that kept surfacing was how organizations are struggling to build cross-border workflows on top of signature frameworks that were designed with only domestic use in mind. That is a problem I hear from theindustry constantly, and it was energizing to see it treated as a shared responsibility rather than an individual compliance headache. Bogotá was the ideal site for these conversations. Colombia has continued to develop its digital identity and electronic signature framework, and that context gave the discussions a particular edge and relevance. 

Why Showing Up Maters Looking Ahead

GlobalSign participated in the Cloud Signature Consortium’s Trust Without Borders Summit 2026 as a supporting sponsor, alongside regional partner GSE and SSL.com. It was an important opportunity to be part of the ecosystem, contributing to the momentum. As a long-established Certificate Authority (we will celebrate our 30th year in business later this year), GlobalSign has a long-standing interest in the development of digital trust frameworks, not just commercially, but technically and structurally. The standards discussed in forums such as the CSC Trust Without Borders Summit will influence future digital trust ecosystems.     

Having worked across Latin America for nearly two decades, I have seen the importance of maintaining dialogue through events such as this.  

Looking Ahead

The road ahead for digital trust in Latin America is not without its challenges. The discussions in Bogotá demonstrated the expertise, collaboration and commitment that exist across the digital trust community. As more markets move toward binding frameworks for digital signatures and identity verification, the decisions made in forums like this one will matter enormously.