GaraSign: Document Signing Use Case
Printing documents to sign by hand is tedious, slow, insecure, and environmentally unfriendly. Most businesses would like to take advantage of digital signing but deploying a digital signature solution throughout a large environment is difficult. It’s a struggle to secure a large number of keys while providing access to end-users.
With GaraSign, all document signing keys are created, stored, and managed centrally within an HSM. End-users are efficiently granted access to the signing keys whenever needed, without slowing down the pace of day-to-day business.
Digital signatures improve the efficiency of business processes.
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While hand-written signatures remain common, they are neither the most secure nor the most efficient way to sign documents.
Digital signatures are far more efficient than written signatures but securely deploying a signing solution at scale is challenging. It creates an influx of signing keys to manage and may require building integrations from end-user software to key managers or HSMs.
Security Concerns
Properly protecting signing keys and enforcing granular security controls, such as MFA, is critical yet challenging.
Performance Requirements
Users are accustomed to sub-second file processing. Security controls cannot inhibit this level of performance.
Integration Challenges
To reduce training requirements, a signing solution must integrate with existing enterprise software and tools.
GaraSign provides fast, secure, and easy document signing with HSM-protected keys.
Secure Access To HSM-Protected Keys
GaraSign is deployed on customer-managed infrastructure between the HSM and the signing clients, restricting those signing clients to proxied key access.
The result is that all document signing keys remain secured and non-exportable in the HSM at all times, while end-users can still use the keys they need to efficiently sign documents. GaraSign further secures keys via granular access controls and features, such as multi-factor authentication, device authentication, and more.
High Performance With Hash Signing
GaraSign uses a hash signing architecture: signing clients hash the document they need to sign before sending it over the network to create the signature.
This technique limits the amount of data being transmitted over the network, so documents are signed quickly while the signing keys remain secured in the HSM.
Simple & Transparent Signing
GaraSign supports all the tools needed to enable document signing throughout any environment, from native client integration into PDF and Microsoft Office clients to bulk signing utilities that can be easily automated and deployed at scale.
