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Workflow, Security and Centralised Management by TriCipher
October 2007 by Marc Jacob
TriCipher released the first digital document signing technology that gathers and stores multiple signatures
on a single, centrally managed file. Unlike any other solution,
TriCipher MySignatureBook(tm) (MSB) saves multiple signatures from a
centrally managed, Web-based workflow to a single, unaltered document,
relieving companies from manually tracking dozens of files each with a
lone signature.
TriCipher Launches MySignatureBook for Secure, Fast and Affordable
Electronic Document Signing
Consolidates Multiple Signatures into Single Document for Streamlined
MSB is the only solution that ensures end-to-end security for highly
regulated and sensitive documents, and eliminates time-consuming and
costly paper-based signature processes, including shipping and storage.
Pfizer initially developed MySignatureBook and has been using it since
the summer of 2006, in conjunction with its authentication credentials
certified by the SAFE(tm) BioPharma Association, which provides the
pharmaceutical industry’s legal foundation for digital signatures.
TriCipher has expanded the product’s support for multiple credential
types, making it easy for pharmaceutical, healthcare and financial
services employees and customers to leverage digital signatures for
high-risk and regulated activities.
For enterprises without a credential infrastructure, MSB supports the
TriCipher Armored Credential System (TACS). This platform gives
organisations user-friendly, low-cost, highly secure credentials, while
maintaining the familiar username and password login experience and
quickly enabling digital signing for all users.
With MySignatureBook, organizations can:
* Reduce costs and increase speed of product development.
* Eliminate geographic obstacles for project approvals.
* Deploy digital signatures equivalent to paper-based signatures,
with full non-repudiation for electronic filing requirements.
* Manage the lifecycle of digital signatures for electronic
records such as laboratory notebooks, regulated e-documents, and
internal records such as software development documents.
* Scale across entire departments and global workgroups.
MySignatureBook’s auditable framework provides vital evidence for
defending patents and accelerates regulatory electronic document
submission - shortening time-to-market for new drugs.
Pharmaceuticals Spearhead Virtual Signatures
Through an online portal, chemists, clinical investigators and
regulatory affairs personnel electronically sign experiment results,
clinical trial information and regulatory electronic documents with
their SAFE credentials via MySignatureBook. The product then gathers
and stores digital signatures from witnesses and managers, ensuring
online transactions are authentic, irrefutable and tamper-proof.
By electronically archiving documents, pharmaceutical companies can
easily search through electronic records to pinpoint specific data such
as chemical reactions; manually, this would require chemists to pore
through notebooks until they spotted the information. Also, records
management becomes paperless and signatures all become legible -
especially important when searching data a few years old.
Financial services companies and healthcare organizations can also use
MySignatureBook to secure electronic signatures for high-value
transactions such as loan applications and verifying patient information
online.
