GlobalSign® Adobe CDS
PDF Signing for Adobe Certified Document Services (CDS) enables more secure, reliable document PDF exchange
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For departments using Acrobat 6+ to create Certified PDFs / add Approval Signatures
DepartmentSign USB for Adobe CDS
DepartmentSign USB allows documents to be certified in desktop based document creation workflows. A digital credential recognised and trusted by Adobe is issued to a departmental identity and stored securely on a USB crypto device shipped to the organisation. The department representatives then use Adobe Acrobat or Reader to sign the document.
DepartmentSign USB is designed for organisations needing departments (Marketing Department or Legal Department ) to add Certifying or Approval Signatures to PDFs.
Authors digitally sign using the Adobe Acrobat 6.0+ software and a DepartmentSign Digital ID securely stored on a SafeNet FIPS 140-1 level 2 cryptographic USB token.
| Pricing & Availability | Low Volume | Normal Volume |
| Up to 2000 certifying or approval signatures per year. From €259 per year i.e. from €0.12 per signature | Up to 5000 certifying or approval signatures per year From €391 per year i.e. from €0.08 per signature | |
| 1 year validity | €479 | €759 |
| 2 year validity | €799 | €1299 |
| 3 year validity | €1069 | €1711 |
| 4 year validity | €1239 | €1979 |
| 5 year validity | €1299 | €2079 |
Additional Duplicate DepartmentSign Digital ID’s are charged at 25% of the initial Digital ID for any additional tokens.
Total aggregate signings must not exceed 2000 per year for low volume and 5000 per year for normal volume.
Price includes a GlobalSign furnished USB crypto token.
Enables PDF security
Including document integrity, authorship and timestamping
Certification Signatures
Allows you to add Certification Signatures to electronically seal a document
No plug-ins or extra software needed
Certified PDFs automatically recognised by Adobe Acrobat and the free Adobe Reader
Approval Signatures
Allows you to add Approval Signatures - add electronic equivalents to wet ink approval signatures
Desktop-based or Server-based
Document certifying and signing solutions to meet requirements of organisations of all sizes
True Multi-lingual support
Supports all languages out of the box
RFC 3161 compliant
Timestamping services from Seiko support non-repudiation essential to time sensitive document transactions and audit trails
WebTrust accredited
WebTrust accredited Certification Authority since 2002
Protect high value documents
Including document integrity, authorship and timestamping
Comply with regulatory frameworks
Allows you to add Certification Signatures electronically seal a document
Reduce your carbon footprint
Certified PDFs automatically recognised by Adobe Acrobat and the free Adobe Reader
Provide assurance
Allows you to add Approval Signatures - add electronic equivalents to wet ink approval signatures
Alert document recipients
Document certifying and signing solutions to meet requirements of organisations of all sizes
Reliably inform document recipients
Of the documents containing Certified and Approval Signatures at the time of online signing produces long term valid 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.
PDF Signing Resources
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