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April 27, 2012

Middle East: Ascertia to exhibit at Cards Middle East 15th - 16th May 2012, book a meeting now...

Ascertia will be exhibiting at Cards Middle East on 15th and 16th May 2012, sharing the stand with our secure token partner SecureMetric. Visit us for demos on document signing, verification, timestamping and workflows. To book a meeting with Ascertia at this event please use this contact us form

April 27, 2012

Global: Ascertia's SigningHub.com selected by GlobalSign for document signing & workflow

GlobalSign selects Ascertia’s SigningHub.com solution to provide a unique solution for aiding internal document workflow and digital signature approval using high trust certificates. The ease of use and ability to create long-term signatures using high trust GlobalSign certificates were a key part of the decision. The Enterprise service plan assigned enabled 30 senior staff to sign important documents using GlobalSign’s USB Token based keys and certificates and GlobalSign’s Timestamp authority.

April 13, 2012

Global: Ascertia successfully completes latest ETSI XAdES advanced XML digital signature plugtest

Ascertia showed its commitment to supporting the important international standards by participating in this important remote ETSI Plugtest. Vendors use this to aid the standardisation process and demonstrate the areas in which interoperability is clear. Ascertia’s performance in creating and verifying signatures through all the detailed tests was as strong as expected. The Ascertia management team has a very strong focus on R&D in this key area since it is essential for EU and world-wide business.

March 12, 2012

Africa: Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) selects ADSS Server for document signing

The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) has selected ADSS XML Server for to enable ETSI XAdES signatures to authenticate data approval and ensure on-going data integrity for business data. Support for multiple keys within an HSM, easy integration using ADSS Client SDK and support for standards including OASIS DSS and ETSI advanced electronic signatures for both signing and verification were key decision criteria.

February 13, 2012

Norway: Commfides Norge AS selects Ascertia Docs (ADocs) for document signing & workflow

Ascertia and Commfides Norge AS have agreed to work as solution partners in the Norwegian market. Commfides will provide cloud-based document workflow and signing services using Ascertia Docs (ADocs) and ADSS Server products and leverage the existing trust infrastructure and client base that Commfides already has in Norway. The ability of ADocs to work with the existing high trust USB based keys and certificates issued by Commfides and the ability to work with PDF and PDF/A documents and provide ETSI PAdES Part2 (as well as Part 4 and Part 5) long-term signatures were key selection criteria. Ascertia will work with Commfides to ensure that ADocs fits the Norwegian market requirements including the checking of national IDs.

January 18, 2012

Europe: QuoVadis selects Ascertia OCSP Monitoring tools for its high-trust validation services

Ascertia is pleased to announce that QuoVadis has chosen its highly effective OCSP Monitor and OCSP Crusher products to monitor and confirm the performance of the QuoVadis OCSP service. Many OCSP providers have no service monitoring tools and the first they know of a problem is when a customer raises an issue. QuoVadis is once again at the forefront in providing high availability, high-trust certificate management services. QuoVadis is a leading international Certification Authority, issuing SSL certificates as well as digital certificates for End Users with its Trust/Link Enterprise managed PKI offering. QuoVadis is accredited as a Qualified Certification Services Provider (CSP) in several countries, and an issuer of Swiss SuisseID and Dutch PKIoverheid certificates. QuoVadis is audited to both WebTrust and ETSI qualified standards.

January 10, 2012

Europe: The Netherlands Government selects ADSS Server for document signing

The Netherlands Ministry of Innovation and agriculture has selected ADSS XML Server for its ability to delivery ETSI XAdES signatures to authenticate data approval and ensure on-going data integrity for business data. Support for multiple keys within an HSM, easy integration using ADSS Client SDK and support for standards including OASIS DSS and ETSI advanced electronic signatures were a key part of the decision criteria.

December 29, 2011

Europe: Ascertia selected by COMTEC NET for Digital Signature and Long-term Archive Services

Ascertia has been selected by COMTEC NET SRL to provide the digital signature and timestamp services that underpin its next generation of e-business services. COMTEC NET is headquartered in Bucharest and specialises in providing EDI services and e-Invoicing solutions. Ascertia ADSS Server was selected to power the digital signature creation and verification services and timestamp based Long-Term Archive and Notary Services (LTANS) needed to satisfy the legislative demands for on-line business. The relevant legislation is Romania’s Fiscal Code law 571/2003 the EC recommendations 1994/820/E. Ascertia was selected because of the strong support ADSS Server provides for ETSI PAdES and XAdES signatures on PDF documents and XML data, and its ability to secure such data in a long-term well-managed archive solution.

December 12, 2011

Europe: The Netherlands Ministry of Justice extends its use of Ascertia ADSS Server

The Netherlands Ministry of Justice (JustID) has awarded Ascertia with another contract increasing the number of ADSS Server licenses used for document digital signature creation, verification, timestamping and archiving. This new order reflects on the fact that Ascertia continues to extend the features and clever flexibility of ADSS Server and ADSS Go>Sign Applet to handle a variety of business integration and workflow requirements.

November 24, 2011

Europe: Ascertia participates in ETSI PAdES Plugtest

Ascertia showed its commitment to supporting the important international standards by participating in this important remote ETSI Plugtest. Vendors use this to aid the standardisation process and demonstrate the areas in which interoperability is clear. Ascertia’s performance in creating and verifying signatures through all the detailed tests was as strong as expected. The Ascertia management team has a very strong focus on R&D in this key area since it is essential for EU and world-wide business.

November 16, 2011

Europe: Ascertia speaks at GITI conference in Georgia

Ascertia was invited to speak on the subject of “Leveraging e-ID trust Infrastructure for Business and Citizens” at this year’s GITI conference in Tbilisi, Georgia. Supported by local partner Next Generation Technology (NGT.ge) Ascertia spoke at the conference and in various meetings afterwards about the importance of having an effective digital signature framework that enabled and supported the types of interactions that are most important for government, financial and other interactions with corporate, retail and citizen interactions. Such a framework allows effective digital security measures to enable new online services, particularly using cloud based solutions which can be enhanced and extended as needed and thus provide much greater flexibility than local software.

November 07, 2011

Global: Global CA Provider selects Ascertia ADSS Server OCSP validation authority

A global certificate managed service provider has selected Ascertia ADSS OCSP Servers as part of providing browser rooted high strength identity services to a world-wide customer base. ADSS Server was selected because of its robust, high-volume performance and ease of management when responding for multiple CAs. The ability to be able to quickly deploy and re-use existing hardware used by an old technology was considered key in selecting Ascertia.

October 17, 2011

Iceland: Ascertia powers Skyrr’s SaaS PDF signing solution

Skyrr hf has selected Ascertia’s ADSS TSA Server, ADSS PDF Server and ADSS Go>Sign Applet products to power their signing service solution for the Icelandic market. Using ADSS Go>Sign Applet and ADSS Server enables PAdES, XAdES and CAdES long-term signatures to be created on a variety of documents for Skyrr’s government, financial and other clients. These security services build on the trust provided by the Icelandic National ID infrastructure service that also uses Ascertia ADSS OCSP Server, OCSP Monitor, CRL Monitor and test tools.

October 03, 2011

Global: Ascertia delivers PDF signing solution to major pharmaceutical company

Ascertia has successfully delivered a custom PDF signing and verification in solution to one of leading multi-national pharmaceutical companies. Ascertia was selected because of its proven expertise in creating and delivering PDF signing products and solutions and was recommended by Adobe. This custom solution enables Adobe® Acrobat® to work with Entrust Authority certificates and to meet the advanced security requirements of the pharmaceutical sector. Ascertia complements users of Adobe PDF documents with a range of document workflow and PDF signing products for Windows and Linux Servers, Windows desktop, and Windows, Linux and Mac based web-browsers.

September 26, 2011

Brazil: Ascertia delivers PDF (PAdES) and PKCS#7 (CAdES) signing solution

Ascertia working with local partner CertSolutions was awarded the contract to supply a PDF and PKCS#7 digital signature server for a technical services company needing to sign and secure invoice and other documents and data. ADSS Server offers unique flexibility in the way it can handle multiple document and signature types while using multiple keys from various trust providers.

September 12, 2011

Europe: Ascertia to attend workshop on EU Signature Policy

Ascertia senior staff will be attending an EU workshop on the future of electronic identification, authentication and signature policy in Brussels on 3rd October 2011. The aim of this project is to study the feasibility of a comprehensive EU legal framework for identification-related electronic credentials required to secure electronic transactions (including ancillary services). To book a meeting with Ascertia at this event please use this contact us form.

September 07, 2011

Turkey: Ascertia attends National eID & ePassport Conference!

Ascertia senior staff will be attending the National eID & ePassport Conference being hosted in Istanbul, Turkey on the 24th-25th of October 2011. Ascertia will be interested to discuss its advanced, PEPPOL-compliant, eID and digital signature solutions. Particular emphasis will be made on how the Ascertia ADSS Server can be used to deliver ICAO and Extended Access Control (EAC) PKI system components for Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs), popularly known as ePassports. To book an appointment with Ascertia at the event please use this contact us form.

August 15, 2011

Global: Ascertia announces Ascertia Docs interoperability with high trust local digital certificates

Ascertia announces that it has successfully tested its cloud-based document sign-off and approval workflow application,Ascertia Docs, with multiple Public Key Infrastructures in Europe the US and Asia where smartcard keys with high trust PIV and eID certificates are used. The long-term PDF signatures have used either local TSA servers, CRLs or on-line OCSP servers to provide the necessary timestamp and certificate revocation data. This means that companies wanting high trust individual PDF digital signatures created by local smartcards or USB tokens can now use Ascertia Docs and their local PKI. The long-term signature produced by Ascertia Docs are good for up to 25 years depending on the CA. Ascertia Docs supports Adobe Rooted CDS and other certificates from GlobalSign, VeriSign and Entrust, Adobe AATL and other certificates from QuoVadis and SwissSign, plus eID and other certificates from DigitalSign and Certipost. Other certificate service providers can be readily supported as required.

July 18, 2011

Europe: Ascertia signs Concept Electronics as a reseller for Romania

Ascertia welcomes Concept Electronics to its reseller partner network. Concept Electronics is headquartered in Bucharest and specialises in advanced IT solutions including trust solutions using digital certificates. In their first sale they have supplied Ascertia’s PDF signing products to the Romanian Government. Ascertia has also agreed to enhance the PDF Sign&Seal to include optional file signing using PKCS#7 and CMS functionality later this year.

July 12, 2011

USA: Ascertia ADSS OCSP Server is FIPS 201 Certified and placed on the GSA Approved Products List

Ascertia’s ADSS OCSP Server has been successfully certified as part of the GSA FIPS 201 Evaluation Program. FIPS 201 is a United States federal government standard that defines Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements for Federal employees and contractors. FIPS 201 was developed to satisfy the technical requirements of HSPD-12 in response for improving the identification and authentication of Federal employees and contractors for access to Federal facilities and information systems. The ADSS OCSP Server validation authority was subjected to a number of strict tests including the use of RSA and ECDSA crypto with SHA-1 and SHA-2 algorithms. Ascertia continues its support for FIPS 201 and the ADSS SCVP Server is also in the process of being FIPS 201 certified with results expected in Q4 2011.

June 27, 2011

Middle East: UAE’s Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) selects Ascertia for validating of national e-IDs cards

Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) has selected Ascertia’s ADSS OCSP Server product as part of the UAE government national ID smart card scheme for citizens and expatriates. The UAE national e-ID smartcards are used for a wide range of online government services, border control and general e-signature and authentication applications. ADSS Server provides centralised e-ID validation services so that any of these business applications can verify digital identity certificates in real-time. The project has used next generation PKI technology to position the UAE e-ID program as one of the most advanced in the world. Ascertia's ADSS Server was selected after a rigorous evaluation process to meet high performance, resilience, real-time certificate status monitoring and detailed management reporting and advanced security management features. Ascertia has also supplied ADSS Signing Server to enable EIDA to offer a full centralised e-signature verification service. ADSS Server removes complexity from business applications and allows them to make a simple service call to EIDA’s centralised verification authority service making the eID cards simple to use and ubiquitous in providing trust services within the UAE.

May 26, 2011

Europe: Ascertia attends the PEPPOL conference in Stockholm

Ascertia attends the PEPPOL conference in Stockholm to discuss and debate the way in which ADSS Server’s PEPPOL capabilities can add value to any Pan European Public Procurement On-Line business solution. Ascertia offers a full range of digital signature creation and verification features including signature and certificate quality assessment to PEPPOL specifications.

May 15, 2011

USA: Ascertia PDF Sign&Seal selected by major corporate

Ascertia’s PDF Sign&Seal product continues to delight corporate users and corporate IT departments with its ease of installation and simplicity of use. Another major global organisation has selected our desktop PDF signing solution for use in group document approval processes.

April 27, 2011

Asia: Ascertia Partners with AsiaPeak

Ascertia welcomes AsiaPeak to its reseller partner network. AsiaPeak, a Taiwan-based company, has more than 15 years of IT security and integration experience, particularly in the areas of cryptographic hardware, PKI and document security. The two companies will address the growing need for digital signature, time-stamping and archiving solutions.

March 21, 2011

Asia: Ascertia Partners with SecureMetric

Ascertia welcomes SecureMetric to its reseller partner network. SecureMetric is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and has offices throughout Asia. It specialises in IT security solutions, particularly in the areas of cryptographic hardware, PKI, document security, smartcards and OTP. SecureMetric has extensive experience of PKI based solutions and selected Ascertia for the broad range of signing and verification features available within ADSS Server.

March 01, 2011

USA: Polycom selects Ascertia ADSS OCSP Server

TS-Group, Ascertia’s partner in the USA for OCSP and other digital certificate validation products announces the sale of ADSS OCSP Server to Polycom Inc. This adds to the growing list of clients that find ADSS Server such an easy product to install configure and manage, the ability to respond for multiple CAs and provide detailed transaction logging and thus fast issue resolution during testing was crucial.

February 25, 2011

Product News: Ascertia’s ADSS Server extends support for ETSI PAdES, XAdES and CAdES signatures

Ascertia continues to provide leadership in satisfying global market requirements for ETSI PAdES, XAdES and CAdES signatures and now supports an even greater range of format options. XKMS and SCVP verification services are PKITS compliant with support for ECDSA algorithms and an ADSS Server Gateway Edition is available for organisations that need data privacy when dealing with managed verification service providers.

February 18, 2011

Europe: Ascertia wins British Library tender for next generation Time Stamp Authority Services

The British Library has selected Ascertia's ADSS TSA Server working with Thales Solo HSMs and Meinberg M300 GPS NTP Servers to provide an effective high volume, resilient, trustworthy source of timestamps to secure the data being ingested into the national Digital Library System. ADSS Server is able to deliver hundreds of SHA-2 RSA-2048 timestamps with time drift checking and alerting using alternative GPS time sources. This confirms Ascertia's dominance in supplying RFC 3161 and ETSI 102 023 compliant TSAs.

February 02, 2011

South Africa: LAWtrust supplies ADSS Server and PDF Sign&Seal to the Department of Roads and Public Works

Ascertia’s partner in South Africa, LAWtrust, was selected to deliver advanced PDF signing solutions based on ADSS Server and PDF Sign&Seal products to the South African Government DRPW. The ease with which ADSS Server can enable bulk signing of PDF documents with simple high level API calls was essential to the success of this project.

January 31, 2011

Americas: Ecuador partner Latinus sells ADSS TSA Server to provide local timestamp services

Latinus has won a project to supply ADSS TSA Server - this will power a local Time Stamp Authority service for financial transactions.

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