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CSC welcomes 4 new members – TrustAsia, Gematik, Emdha and ESign

July 15, 2021

The Cloud Signature Consortium is delighted to welcome four new members to the association : TrustAsia, Gematik, Emdha, and ESign. With these new additions, the CSC now comprises 57 members.  Based in Shanghai, TrustAsia is the authoritative and professional network integrity and network security service provider in the Asia-Pacific region. They provide professional network security deployment and network integrity certification services for the global 500 companies, listed companies, institutions, and government departments in the […]

New EU eIDAS Regulation a quantum leap for electronic identity

June 22, 2021

By Viky Manaila, Trust Services Director, Intesi Group The accelerated shift to the digital world during 2020 has raised the necessity to know who really is behind the computer, or who’s “the dog on the internet”. The citizens’ need of having access to public and private services remotely has changed the priorities on the agenda […]

The evolution of high-trust remote signing and the legal validity of the CSC standard in Chile

May 26, 2021

By Victoria Allen, Ascertia The legal validity of signing with Cloud Signature Consortium (CSC) standard is dependent on country laws and legal regulations around electronic signatures. Trust Service Providers (TSP) and Qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSP) are using the CSC standard globally to enable users to sign documents using Qualified and Advance Electronic Signatures. Ascertia […]

Ensuring authenticity in digital transformation using cloud signatures

By Venkatraman Srinivasan, eMudhra Limited ‘Property rights’ is a long-established concept in society, and as society evolves, so does one’s ability to assert property rights. This transformation can be seen in multiple eras: trade invention, the Industrial Revolution, and the technology revolution we are experiencing today. The concept of a ‘signature’ is also ancient, having been used as early as 4000 BC where the […]

Italian citizens can now sign documents in a couple of clicks with SPID

By Francesco Vetrano, Intesi Group The restrictions and limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have had a direct impact on digital transformation, accelerating the adoption of paperless processes and electronic signatures. SPID (the Italian federated system of digital identities) integration has been added to the major European IdPs (such as BankID in Sweden and Norway, NemID in Denmark, FTN in […]

The role of eSignatures in fraud prevention

By Carrie Peter, Impression Signatures For many organisations, the value of auditable proof only becomes evident after they have incurred the cost of defending the validity of a contract or transaction. While cloud signatures do not yet have the support of underlying legislation, there are still measurable benefits to using eSignatures. For instance, preventing fraud is always preferable to prosecuting it, and this is where the […]