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QuoVadis Launches Signing and Validation Service (sealsign SVS)

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:35:00 GMT

QuoVadis has launched sealsign Signing and Validation Service, a simple and cost effective way for companies to enable their legacy systems to use legally compliant digital signatures.

With the rapid adoption of e-invoicing and document management systems, many companies grapple with the challenge to make their data tamperproof as well as to assert the origin and authenticity of their electronic documents.

The sealsign Signing and Validation Service provides an easy-to-deploy solution for companies to use digital signatures in “mass signing” workflows such as e-invoice and e-archive systems, meeting compliance obligations without complicated IT integrations.

Digital Signature Options

The QuoVadis sealsign Signing and Validation Service can sign all file types – ranging from XML to PDF – with a variety of signature formats, including embedded or separate. For PDFs, the service allows customised signature blocks as well as embedded validations so signatures can be checked even without Internet connectivity. For e-invoicing using XML, the service supports the UN/EDIFACT INVOICE standards. Trusted time-stamp signatures can be applied separately or as part of a digital signature.

Validation Reports

The sealsign Signing and Validation Service can also produce validation reports – confirming digital signatures, signing credentials, and time-stamps – for transactions produced by the service or coming from external sources. The format and language of these reports may be customized, and the reports can be produced separately or bundled with the original document in a PDF Portfolio.

Data Protection

To assure confidentiality, the original data and documents never leave the customer’s system environment. The sealsign broker communicates only a computed hash/digest value with the QuoVadis service via encrypted connections for signing.

Easy Integration

The fast installation of the sealsign Signing and Validation Service broker allows the company to securely access their signing platform and credentials securely hosted at QuoVadis. The sealsign broker is easily configured to interact with the customer’s underlying systems using a File Manager or SOAP web service. The sealsign Signing and Validation Service has been proven in a wide variety of platforms and operating systems. QuoVadis partners have created specific modules to work with frequently used DMS, CRM, ERP, and e-invoicing applications.

Proven Background

QuoVadis is an accredited Certification Service Provider in Switzerland and the Netherlands (EU) with a specialisation in “qualified” digital certificates and digital signatures. QuoVadis has deployed the technologies used in the sealsign Signing and Validation Service with hundreds of organisations, signing hundreds of millions of transactions each year.

Free Trial

QuoVadis provides interested parties the opportunity to test the sealsign Signing and Validation Service on a demo account at no cost.

QuoVadis Sponsors 2013 Catlin Bermuda End-to-End

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:24:00 GMT

The QuoVadis Group is proud to sponsor the 2013 Catlin End-to-End. The End-to-End is Bermuda's most popular community fund raising event, attracting more than 2,000 people each year to walk, swim, or ride across Bermuda raising money for local charities.

“The End-to-End has raised more than $4.25 million for Bermuda charities over the years, and our staff members are active participants in the event” said Anthony Nagel, QuoVadis COO. “We think it’s a great opportunity to support good causes in Bermuda, while encouraging our community to get fit and enjoy the island’s wonderful outdoors”.

This is the ninth year that QuoVadis has sponsored the End-to-End. Funds raised in the 2013 event will support the Adult Education Centre, the Coalition for the Protection of Children, the Family Centre, Greenrock, the Reading Clinic, SCARS (Saving Children and Revealing Secrets), Westmeath, WindReach , and the Women’s Resource Centre

Read more about the Catlin End-to-End, sign up online, or pledge towards participants' "fun raising" goals at www.bermudaendtoend.bm.

eHerkenning wins the 2012 Novay Digital Identity Award

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:11:00 GMT

eHerkenning wins the 2012 Novay Digital Identity Award. The award for the best new concept in the field of digital identity was today awarded to the Dutch eHerkenning system at the IDentity.Next '12 conference in The Hague. eHerkenning is an e-identity trust framework scheme that allows companies to reuse digital identities for authentication across multiple Dutch government bodies. This makes conducting online business with the government easier and more reliable.

The government itself does not issue eHerkenning credentials, but this does together with six recognized providers including QuoVadis Trust Link b.v.

Companies are doing more online business with the government. The government must be able to reliably able to authenticate the company online as well as confirm the person acting on behalf of this company is authorised to do so. eHerkenning is a public-private partnership with 70,000 users and more than 50 government organizations. The management of eHerkenning is overseen by an independent management organization approved by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and overseen by Logius. eHerkenning includes agreements in the areas of reliability, interoperability and liability.

Hermen van der Lugt, Director of Novay and chairman of the jury: "What the jury found particularly innovative is that eHerkenning provides an open e-identity trust framework under which private companies compete to offer identity services. eHerkenning is being used as an example for similar in the United States and the United Kingdom. These countries have similar initiatives, but they are significantly less advanced." The jury is positive about the growing use of eHerkenning, making online business with the government easier and more reliable. An added benefit is that eHerkenning is busy making re-use of the same identities for online business between companies possible.

Besides eHerkenning (www.eherkenning.nl) there were two nominees in the running for the award. Evolok (www.evolok.com) is an English product that identity and access management system with a paywall system for online publishers integrates. It gives content providers more flexibility in combining ad revenue, subscriptions and pay-as-you-go business models. The other nominee was the Dutch IDchecker www.idchecker.com). IDchecker offers a Software-as-a-Service solution to verify physical credentials such as driver's license or passport. 3500 different types of documents from 219 countries are supported by the system. The IDchecker service enables the transition from physical to digital identities, decreasing the risk of identity theft.

Digital identity solutions are essential for online trust. We need solutions that are not only easy and safe, but not too much cost and cope well with our privacy. Through the award, IDentity.Next and research and advisory firm Novay provide a platform for innovative concepts, products and services in the field of digital identities. The entries were judged by a jury chaired by Hermen van der Lugt, CEO of Novay. The jury also consists Kevin Cox (founder Edentiti, winner in 2011), John Hermans (partner at KPMG) and Leendert Bottelberghs (Head of Business Development at Marketplace, eBay Classifieds Group).

The prize is part of the IDentity.Next conference in The Hague, organized by the research foundation that focuses on developments in digital identity. The conference brings together experts, professionals and industrial parties together to discuss the developments in the field of digital identity. More information about the program and the award can be found at www.identitynext.eu. More information can be found at eHerkenning www.eherkenning.nl.

Veb.ch Swiss Accounting and Controls Association Choses QuoVadis SuisseID

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:37:00 GMT

veb.ch, the largest Swiss association for certified experts in accounting and financial controls, will partner with QuoVadis to provide SuisseID to its members.

Veb.ch was founded in 1936 and now has more than 6,000 members in Switzerland. The association supervises the Swiss federal certificate in accounting and financial controls.

QuoVadis is a leading provider of SuisseID, the first standardised product in Switzerland for secure electronic identity, since the eID programme was launched in May 2010. Using SuisseID, individuals, company representatives and public sector employees can securely communicate with each other online:

Secure electronic credential based on a smartcard or USB token
Qualified electronic signature to create legally binding transactions and protect data integrity
Attestation of professional affiliation
Encryption for privacy with the additional QuoVadis Secure Email Certificate

Users can thus authenticate with participating online services, as well as create legally binding signatures on emails or documents (in formats including PDF, Word, Excel). The SuisseID can also creates transparency regarding the certificate holder's corporate affiliations, membership in associations, and professional accreditations.

More information on SuisseID is available at www.suisseid.ch.

Founded in 1999, QuoVadis is a Qualified Trust Service Provider (TSP) issuing digital certificates, as well as providing managed PKI, digital signature, and trusted time-stamping services.

In addition to issuing the SuisseID in Switzerland, QuoVadis is active in eID programmes in Holland including the Netherlands PKI Overheid and e-Herkenning with large deployments in the legal and accounting professions. In the UK, QuoVadis is an approved provider of digital certificates for the Government Gateway, including the HMRC SET (Secure Electronic Transfer) programme.

Leveraging QuoVadis SSL with VMware vCloud Director

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:50:00 GMT

Virtualisation and cloud computing leader VMware® has published a technical paper describing the implementation of QuoVadis SSL in its vCloud® Director™ solution for datacentre virtualisation. vCloud Director enables IT organisations to build secure, multitenant hybrid clouds by pooling infrastructure resources -- including compute, storage and network -- into virtual datacentres that can be rapidly deployed to users on-demand.

With the growth of cloud computing, security has become a paramount concern to protect the authenticity, confidentiality and integrity of users’ information. Complex cloud infrastructures involve multiple connections between various hosts and external communication channels. The use of SSL certificates is an important tool to encrypt those connections to provide data privacy and prove the legitimacy of endpoints.

The new VMware technical paper provides additional guidance to implementers on deploying SSL in vCloud Director. With VMware’s focus on efficiency and ease of deployment, QuoVadis’ Trust/Link Enterprise is highlighted as one option for the rapid procurement of SSL certificates, including Organisation Validation (OV) and Extended Validation (EV) SSL.

The speed of SSL issuance is an important requirement for cloud providers, ensuring that SSL encryption can be deployed with the same efficiency and ease as the cloud infrastructure itself. QuoVadis Trust/Link enables domains and corporate details to be “prevalidated” allowing subsequent straight-through issuance of SSL.

Trust/Link also provides a wide array of delegated administration options allowing use of the system by multiple business units, segregation of duties across roles, as well as distribution of workload. A range of controls and reporting mechanisms protect the security of the SSL platform.

Trust/Link has been proven for high-volume volume SSL use by multinational organisations (both highly distributed and centralised), as well as external managed service providers serving the corporate, academic, and public sector communities.

QuoVadis is a member of the CA/Browser Forum, and holds the WebTrust seals for CAs and Extended Validation SSL as well as other accreditations. In addition, QuoVadis is a Qualified Trust Service Provider in Holland, Switzerland and Bermuda.

Russell Medway Joins QuoVadis Services as COO

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:40:00 GMT

Russell Medway has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of QuoVadis Services Limited, Bermuda’s leading provider of managed datacentre services.

Mr. Medway has more than 25 years of experience managing complex information systems and infrastructure including serving in senior IT positions at Ironshore Insurance, Endurance Group, Centre Solutions, and Zurich Financial Services in Bermuda.

At QuoVadis, Mr. Medway will lead the service delivery function, including the customer onboarding process, as well as operational management of the QuoVadis datacentre and cloud hosting platforms. Mr. Medway will also be responsible for the monitoring and reporting of QuoVadis’ vital infrastructure for customers.

According to Gavin Dent, CEO of QuoVadis Services, “The IT sector in Bermuda is moving rapidly towards managed services as organisations seek to maintain their flexibility while lowering both their costs and operational risk. Russell has proven experience managing the types of mission critical systems that customers now entrust to QuoVadis, allowing us to consistently meet their demands for performance and availability.”

QuoVadis has offered co-location, virtual hosting, and disaster recovery services in Bermuda since 2003. More recently, QuoVadis built a new SecureCentre datacentre in central Hamilton to support the next generation of high density computing and cloud technologies.

“Customers trust QuoVadis’ track-record of infrastructure investment and reliable performance, as well as our ability to host their vital information securely within the Bermuda jurisdiction. With his experience managing global enterprise IT operations and software deployments, Russell will play an important role fulfilling that customer trust in QuoVadis,” added Mr. Dent.

QuoVadis was founded in 1999. In Bermuda, QuoVadis Services Limited is a dominant provider of secure hosting and disaster recovery services for the corporate sector, including co-location, managed datacentre, and cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS). Sister company QuoVadis Limited operates internationally providing encryption services for online identity, privacy, and data integrity. QuoVadis is an accredited eID and digital signature provider in Holland and Switzerland.

Comada Chooses QuoVadis for Secure Hosting

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:39:00 GMT

Comada, the provider of transaction-driven software solutions for investors in hedge funds, has migrated its servers to QuoVadis’ new next-generation data centre. The new Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) platform will bring considerable advantages to Comada’s customer base, including users of Comada’s award-winning M.A.T.ware software.

Comada was created in 2004 to provide the alternative funds industry with technology solutions that revolutionise operational processes and the way the industry communicates. Comada’s co-founders include Bermudian Dave Shastri, who previously led the Bank of Bermuda’s business development for the funds sector in Europe and worked with Zurich Capital Markets.

Comada has leveraged QuoVadis’ advanced hosting platforms – featuring the latest networking, data storage, and high density computing technologies – to create new options for its clients. The QuoVadis platform enhances the levels of security Comada can now offer its clients, with options for either multi-tenant or dedicated infrastructure. The platform also supports Comada’s programme to offer clients more flexibility in the way they use Comada technology.

Said Rupert Vaughan Williams, co-founder of Comada, “Security is a key requirement for today’s fund managers and their investors. With QuoVadis, we are still able to offer clients robust solutions when compliance requirements mean they are unable to host software or data in a multi-tenant environment.”

Comada’s M.A.T.ware software is designed to be highly scalable, allowing it to be seamlessly deployed across a multi-tenant environment, along with highly configurable reporting features for fund managers and investors. Its scalability for both small and large firms in the alternative investments space requires a hosting environment that can meet the most stringent technological due diligence criteria.

Said Gavin Dent, CEO of QuoVadis Services, “QuoVadis has provided IaaS hosting to Comada for eight years, working with the company to support their fast growth and technology evolutions. With the transition to our latest IaaS platform, Comada’s team can focus on evolving the software at the heart of their services while QuoVadis’ IaaS experts maintain the performance, availability and security of the underlying hosting and data centre technologies.”

“There is a clear trend amongst successful international businesses to focus on their core competencies, while seeking the support of IaaS specialists like QuoVadis for the underlying hosting platforms,” continued Mr. Dent.

About Comada
Comada is a global technology company specialising in building and implementing software solutions for the alternative investment industry. In particular, Comada’s flagship M.A.T.ware product delivers an unprecedented level of interconnectivity and transparency to the portfolio management and STP process in the alternative investments space. Praised for its flexibility, M.A.T.ware can be scaled to suit the needs of family offices as easily as large custodian banks. M.A.T.ware is already being used by custodians, fund administrators and funds of hedge funds.
For more information, please go to www.comada.com.

About QuoVadis
Founded in 1999, QuoVadis Limited is an Internet security provider with operations in Switzerland, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Bermuda. The company is a global provider of digital certificate and digital signature services used to enhance privacy and confidentiality, data integrity, and strong authentication over the Internet. Drawing upon the company’s experience and investment in high performance datacenters, QuoVadis Services Limited (QVS) provides secure collocation, virtual hosting, and disaster recovery services to international organisations.