Friday, January 6, 2012

Advantages Of Using Adobe CDS

By Darwin Bell


Today the web presence of organizations, both commercial and non-commercial, has become a necessity rather than an option. Businesses from different industries and various government sectors and institutions maintain websites and employ various technologies to get in touch with their audience- employees, customers, students, readers, etc. Included in these technologies is the publication and distribution of documents, and one of the more prominent names in this field is Adobe CDS.

Online document distribution boasts a number of perks. It boosts organizational interactions, saves tons of paper, and enables businesses to build profit-oriented innovations. While there are no issues with these, it is important to take note that there are sensitive documents and need limited readership. Recipients and senders of the documents can confirm the authenticity of the information through familiarizing with a set of icons.

For instance, documents that contain private information of individuals or company trade secrets need to be sent in a highly secure manner. In addition, organizations also need to make sure that the official documents they publish are original and cannot be duplicated by abusive groups intending to cause harm.

Basically, Adobe CDS provide a set of tools that help companies easily confirm the legitimacy and reinforce the security of transmitted documents. By using Adobe's PDF programs, individual authors of documents, senders, and recipients are able to transmit sensitive information securely, carefully, and efficiently. Authors, for one, can create their unique digital signatures so recipients can confirm that the documents indeed come from them. These signatures are then validated and certified by SSL certificate-authority companies, which fully support and work with Adobe suite of programs.

Adobe CDS make use of obvious logos describing the quality of the sent files. A blue ribbon logo signifies the document is certified and a check mark logo signifies the author's signature is valid. In contrast, a red line logo means that the document is not signed, a red x icon tells the signature is invalid, a yellow caution triangle logo says that the document is modified, and a question mark logo means the document is not validated because it is from an unknown sender. Valid signatures contain additional information helpful to the recipients, including the author's contact information and the date and time it was signed.




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