Arcot SignFort Digital Signing System - Overview

The Digital Signing Challenge
Fully electronic business processes enable you to achieve significant cost savings by eliminating the printing, distribution and processing of documents. Unfortunately, if you rely on a ‘print and sign' component of your electronic forms, you are still incurring substantial costs. In addition, provisioning users with the capability to sign digitally presents operational challenges because expensive hardware and client software must be installed on your users' desktops.

The SignFort Solution
Arcot SignFort gives you a secure, scalable, and cost-efficient alternative to hardware. SignFort enables organizations to replace traditional ‘print and sign' methods with a more secure, streamlined process for signing and approving documents. In addition, SignFort vastly simplifies digital ID provisioning. Organizations no longer have to issue smart cards, hardware tokens, or require software installations to enable digital signing for their customers, employees, or partners. Arcot's SignFort easily works across a variety of applications and environments, including PDF, XML, and other document types.

Arcot and Adobe make digital signing practical
Adobe embedded Arcot authentication and signing technology in Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8 to provide a seamless signing experience for users, no matter where they are or what computer they are using. Roaming IDs allow for the storage and central protection of digital IDs. There is no additional hardware or software to install on your users' desktop.

Reduce cycle time and improve customer satisfaction
Digital signing reduces your processing time, lowers your operational costs, and minimizes your users' frustrations when signing forms.

Easy-to-use
No software installation or security hardware required on your users' desktops; no special security settings on desktop firewall or browser required.

Signing policies
Restricts digital ID use to specific times of day, IP address, device ID, or other criteria to provide additional control or authentication requirements.

Roaming/portability
Centralized storage of digital IDs supports the gathering of digital signatures from signers outside your IT infrastructure, or enables signers to apply a digital signature from a network-connected PC.

Integrates with Arcot WebFort strong authentication
Compatible with existing authentication solutions or Arcot WebFort strong authentication to authenticate users.

Comprehensive reporting
Logs authentication, management, and signing events for audit and non-repudiation purposes.