What is the Cloud Signature Consortium (CSC) ?

The CSC is a global association of industries, governments and academic organisations, including solution providers, technology firms and Trust Service Providers, all of which have come together to drive the standardisation and interoperability of highly secure and compliant cloud-based digital signatures.

With the introduction of the eIDAS (electronic Identification, Authentication and trust Services) regulation by the EU in 2014, it was clear a common global standard and methodology for interoperability between organisations in the digital signature community was required.

The CSC was created to develop these common protocols and enable everyone to have access secure digital signature solutions across a wide range of cloud-based applications, on mobile devices and the web in a non-proprietary way.

According to the Cloud Signature Consortium, the organisation:

“Aims to make it simple for EU businesses and governments to successfully comply with this new regulation. The vision is to create a single digital market, across Europe and the globe.”

Remote Signing powering cross border business

Designed specifically with CSC Qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSPs) in mind, the Ascertia ADSS SAM Appliance enables remote signing services to be set up and offered to customers.

Together with Ascertia’s SigningHub and ADSS Server products, QTSPs can provide fully hosted remote signing services or hybrid solutions – for example, where organisations require an on-premise front-end with a back-end hosted certified environment managing the PKI elements.

Ascertia’s SAM Appliance was the first product to achieve Common Criteria EAL4+ certification against the eIDAS ETSI EN 419 241 standard and the EN 419 241-2 Protection Profile with Level 2 Sole Control.