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Enterprise PKI for Adobe Certified Document Services (CDS) and Secure PDF Signing
Adobe Certified Document Services (CDS) protect electronic documents from unauthorised changes, prove authorship and enable more secure, reliable document PDF exchange.
Certified Document Services (CDS) is the first digital signing solution that allows authors to create Adobe® PDF files that automatically certify to the recipient that the author's identity has been verified by a trusted organisation. Authors of PDFs add digital Certifying Signatures and Approval Signatures to documents they distribute over the Internet. The process is the virtual equivalent to sealing a document and adding wet-ink signatures and assuring the recipient that the document is authentic, comes from a verified source and the contents have not been tampered with since being published.
- Enables PDF security - including document integrity, authorship and time-stamping
- No plug-ins or extra software needed - Certified PDFs & Approval Signatures are automatically recognised by Adobe Acrobat and the free Adobe Reader
- Helps meet company document security policy and regulatory compliance for electronic document transmission and storage
- Cost Effective – simply purchase packs starting from only £1517 for 5 PDF Signing Digital IDs (includes 5 USB devices)
- Includes additional 10% of initial purchase in form of free Digital IDs for user attrition and/or support considerations
Certifiy and Add Digital Approval Signatures to high value documents
Certifying Signatures
Using GlobalSign PDF Signing, PDFs can be certified by a person or department by adding a Certifying Signature, and when viewed will present the document recipient with a prominent "blue ribbon" displayed within Adobe Reader. Recipients can then easily determine the document authenticity and authorship. Prior to certifying the document the signer may specify the types of changes allowed for the document to remain certified (e.g. what is allowed without invalidating the Certifying Signature) such as "changes not permitted, form filling only or form filling and commenting".
Approval Signatures
PDF Signing allow PDFs to contain one or more Approval Signatures, added by individuals or departments, and when viewed present the document recipient with a "green checkmark" displayed within the PDF itself. Approval Signatures show which people or departments have consented to, approved or accepted to the contents of the PDF.
Meet Compliancy Requirements
Organisations using electronic documents must adhere to an increasing number of industry, Government and Privacy compliancy requirements. ePKI for Adobe CDS Digital IDs helps you meet your responsibilities when protecting client, user, patient and relying party data.
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