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Enterprise PKI for Government
Managed Digital IDs for Secure Email, Authentication and Document Signing for Federal, State & Local Government. Enterprise PKI (ePKI) is a managed service model that provides administrators the essential tools for full control of how Digital IDs (also known as Digital Certificates) are issued and managed under the Governmental organisation's legal name. The issued Digital IDs facilitate department-wide policies for secure e-mail, documents signing and networks access. Users can issue Digital IDs to multiple staff, suppliers and extranet users instantly against pre-vetted organisation profiles.
- Cost Effective – simply purchase packs starting from only £295 for 5 Digital IDs*
- Provides immediate ability to secure department email and electronic documents and provide authentication to public / closed networks
- Perfectly suited for the small to medium Governmental department or large department wishing to pilot or start with smaller roll-outs
- Carries no set-up fees and no annual hosting fees - pay only for the Digital IDs issued
- Includes additional 10% of initial purchase in form of free Digital IDs for user attrition and/or support considerations
Government Specific Applications
Two major initiatives driving eCommerce among Government institutions are the Government Paperwork Elimination Act* which was signed into law on October 21, 1998 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_gpea2/) and the Government Accessibility Act aimed at providing services to citizens in remote areas or make information more accessible to those with disabilities.
*“GPEA requires Federal agencies, by October 21, 2003, to allow individuals or entities that deal with the agencies the option to submit information or transact with the agency electronically, when practicable, and to maintain records electronically, when practicable. The Act specifically states that electronic records and their related electronic signatures are not to be denied legal effect, validity, or enforceability merely because they are in electronic form and encourages Federal Government use of a range of electronic signature alternatives.”
Customer Case Study - requirement to create tamper proof, time-stamped and publicly trusted Government electronic documents
A large Federal Agency tasked with archiving and making accessible large amounts of Government documents to the public needed a method to assure documents viewed from their website were trusted and tamper evident in the event unauthorised modifications were made after download. Using GlobalSign’s DocumentSign Digital IDs, the agency was able to apply a long-lived digital signature coupled with a RFC 3161 time-stamp to hundreds of thousands of PDFs.
This example of Government to Citizen publishing of documents illustrates how documents exchanged in disparate communities require a solution that is easy to administer and more importantly easy to maintain. Citizens who wish to view Government hosted PDF documents simply click on the PDF and through the Adobe free Reader can instantly ascertain that the document originated from a trusted source.
Using free third party products vastly reduces support costs by leveraging the more than 800 million copies of Adobe Reader deployed world-wide. The long-lived 2048 key-length signature coupled with the trusted time-stamp met this agency’s need for secure signatures well beyond the certificate expiration period.
