Posted by Jo Fletcher on 12/02/02

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ArticSoft empowers businesses to create a legally
valid "paper trail" – without the paper

As globalization drives a shift towards paperless
transactions, businesses employing communications
technologies increasingly have to know: Has a digital
document been signed? Who signed it, when, and in which
order? Who could access the document? Have they signed it
or copies of it? Has it been altered at any stage, and were
the alterations agreed? Can signatories be held legally
accountable on the strength of the digital document? Can we
prove we have met regulations for privacy?

ArticSoft has the answer.

Steve Mathews, CEO, ArticSoft today unveiled
ContentAssurity, a complete content protection package that
allows users to digitally sign and authenticate a piece of
information in a document, spreadsheet or email, protect
the confidentially of their text and choose the people who
can view it, irrespective of the application it has been
developed in.

ContentAssurity empowers users to create a legally
valid "paper trail" – without the paper. Multiple users can
sign the same text or just some portions of the text. The
date and time of each signature is recorded, as are the
people for whom it was protected, so that a full audit
trail is available to each recipient. A key benefit for
business is that the content is verified at each step. Any
attempt to alter protected messages is detected
automatically and the user is notified. Documents and
messages protected by ContentAssurity comply with rules in
the European Digital Signature regulations, and therefore
can have a legal standing.

Mathews emphasized, "ContentAssurity has been designed to
be application independent. It is therefore immune to the
security weaknesses of the applications used to create and
transmit the content. It also means that there are no
integration problems, no update incompatibilities, and
senders and recipients don't have to run the same
software."

Extensive testing has confirmed that ContentAssurity works
at two levels – protecting the content and allowing the
sender to control access to information. ContentAssurity
lets the users protect and send all or parts of text in a
message / document using the same or different keys. The
same content can be sent to many people but individuals
will access / view only the specific parts relevant to
them.

These functionalities make ContentAssurity an application
of choice for businesses that need security with
flexibility, without the bother of having to decipher
incomprehensible technology.

ContentAssurity can be purchased for $39. Free reader
software (for recipients to unprotect and verify content)
is available for download from the ArticSoft web site so
that anyone can receive protected content at no charge.

More information on ContentAssurity, a free trial and the
free reader can be found at:
http://www.articsoft.com/contentassurity.htm

About ArticSoft
ArticSoft has one goal... providing low cost, high quality,
easy to use security software for everyone. ArticSoft
products are designed for business users, not
technologists. The ArticSoft team has over 30 years
experience in the field of computer security, and 15 years
experience of securing information on personal computers
and messaging systems. Steve Mathews, is one of the authors
of BS7799 (now ISO/IEC 17799) and is well recognized in the
security industry.

ContentAssurity - more information and free trial

Legally valid paper trail without the paper, 12/02/02, by Jo Fletcher.

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