Entrust sees potential in public sector for verified signing

Entrust has launched a new electronic signature solution, from which it says government and public agencies can benefit.

The Entrust Verified Signing solution integrates identity verification and identity and access management (IAM) with digital signatures to identify and authenticate people on both sides of digital transactions. The Identified Signing capabilities can be integrated into an organisation’s existing business processes and workflows or be deployed as a turnkey electronic signature solution.

Charlotte Pommier, senior product marketing manager at Entrust said the solution aligns with major signature standards and regulations such as the EU eIDAS regulation, which has become a reference for remote signature security and trust, even outside of the European Union.

“Verified signing is a great tool for digital transformation projects (G2B and G2C), where pen and paper approvals need to be modernised and optimised for faster time to value, without losing citizen’s trust in the process – for example: tax declarations, licence/permit issuance and renewals,” said Pommier.

“A cloud-based solution backed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) and Qualified Trust Service Provider (QTSP) removes the burden of hardware management and scalability issues for public agencies who may not have competencies or human resources to manage on-premises solutions, while ensuring a signing process aligned with the strongest identity and authentication standards [including] mobile authenticator, single sign on, and multifactor authentication, and signatures that are recognised across governments and organisations.”

Pommier said Entrust’s IAM and e-signing services enable the public sector to “think beyond just a signing process, and build a holistic solution to manage citizen’s identities, transactions and agreements as part of an e-Gov service – for example: public services portal – to limit the risks of fraud, account takeover or impersonation.”