Secure esignature software,
The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act takes
effect this month, ushering in a new role for encryption in the United
States. The legislation allows the use of e-signatures in transactions
and gives certain encrypted certificates the same legal authority as
written signatures. Staff reporter spoke with
the founder and executive vice president of certain
Technology company; an encryption infrastructure vendor. Vice president
of certain
Technology company was formerly
vice president of the Group's global networking strategies service,
tracking developments in information security, e-commerce, Secure
esignature software, and global communications services.
Secure esignature
software,
What verticals do you
expect to first implement e-signature infrastructures?
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When you think about how a lot of these
Secure esignature software transactions are starting to happen,
really where you have a lot of regulatory oversight, those tend to be
the vertical markets where it makes a lot of sense to move to
e-signatures.
Those would be the financial institutions as well as health care, places
where consumer privacy is a huge issue. The capability to encrypt many
of those Secure esignature software messages using
digital certificates
becomes critical.
The HIPPA Act, the Health Care Information Protection and Privacy
Act, really does require how a lot of that data is to be stored, who
is supposed to access it, and the fact that it has to have integrity in
terms of the messages that are sent back and forth, Secure esignature
software.
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