secure2sign is an advanced digital signing tool which is integrated into Microsoft® Office Word in a manner that allows and encourages natural document signing. secure2sign makes signing Word documents as quick and easy as picking up a pen

secure2signXL is an advanced digital signing tool which is integrated into Microsoft® Office Excel® in a manner that allows and encourages natural document signing. secure2signXL makes Excel® signing documents as quick and easy as picking up a pen.

A digital certificate is needed to identify signers using Secure2sign or secure2signXL
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Secure2sign and secure2signXL are two separate products and as such must be purchased separately.

secure2sign or secure2signXL enables you to digitally sign and timestamp Microsoft® Office Word documents or Excel® spreadsheets so that it can be shown that the document:

• Has not been altered since it was signed. (Proof of content.) Existed in this form at the time
• it was time-stamped. (Proof of existence.)

In addition the Secure2sign products allows the signer to associate an electronic approval with their signature which shows why they are signing that document at that point in time, some examples include:

• Approved – Final – Audited - etc

Other features include:

• Time-stamping from an authorized time stamp time source.
• Optional visible signature.
• Check for revocation status of digital certificate – if revoked, can’t sign
• Support for two-factor digital signing
• Support for unlimited number of signatures on the same document / spreadsheet
• Includes objects that are embedded into content, such as a worksheet embedded into a Word document, in the signature.
• Secure2sign for Word allows you to sign sections so allowing signing to take place within workflows
• secure2signXL allows signing of cell ranges / worksheets or entire workbooks
• Helps with compliance such as ESIGN, etc.
• Support for smart cards and eTokens

Both secure2sign products support the US Government HSPD-12 PIV cards and also banking and financial institutions requirements including the IdenTrust scheme for digital identities. secure2sign products also enables the use of two factor authentication for signing of documents.

Unlike other digital signing tools, secure2sign products check Microsoft® Office documents for potentially malicious content before you sign, to ensure that you don't sign content that you are unaware of, or that may display differently at a later date. For example, a field could be set to change a number, such as $45,000 to $450,000 on a given date, you would have signed the document showing the lesser amount and unbeknown to you, that amount would be changed at a later date with no associated acknowledgement of that change.

In addition, unlike other digital signing tools, secure2sign and secure2signXL:

• Does not use ActiveX controls, macros or Microsoft® Visual Basic® code. The ability to sign without introducing active content:
• Eliminates the possibility of active content being maliciously exploited.
• Prevents the problem of firewalls filtering out documents with active content.
• Avoids conflicts with using documents with active content in secure environments.
• Ensures compatibility with Microsoft® Office 2007 default native file formats (.docx, xlsx) that specifically exclude any active elements (ActiveX, scripts or macros).
• Is resistant to the attacks that have been shown to affect other signing programs.

With secure2sign, both signers and systems administrators can

• Restrict choice of certificates to those from specified certificate authorities.
• Enforce certificate validation on signing.
• Enforce the use of OCSP validated certificates.
  

These restrictions may be applied within an enterprise, so that documents signed within the enterprise can conform with the enterprise’s signing policies. However, uniquely, secure2sign products stores these rules within the signed document, so that signers outside of the enterprise can be forced to comply with them.

Price for secure2sign for Word or secure2signXL: USD $ 95.00 [Volume discount prices] TAX/VAT may apply for certain countries. Exact details are provided before the order is completed. Contact sales for pricing of secure2sign Enterprise version.

Secure2sign API available for integration into third party portals, etc.

secure2sign supports the following Microsoft® Office Word versions: 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, 2007

secure2signXL supports the following Microsoft® Office Excel versions: 2002 (XP), 2003, 2007

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