Your most important concern is maintaining the security of documents from tampering and access, especially your important ones.

Dear reader, you may be suspicious of the idea of throwing your file on this web and making signatures through it. And perhaps some people encouraged you to use it as an alternative to manual signatures to speed up the completion of your work. Others may discourage you from using these signatures claiming that they are not guaranteed in terms of security and information security. They might be ignorant of how these sites work and do not know how to deal with files.

Now I will refute these opinions and show you the truth, so follow along with the information in this article.

Are Electronic Signatures Exposed to Forgery?

You can forge a manual signature and change its content easily, but can you do the same with electronic signatures?

Of course NOT! Electronic signatures do not allow you to tamper, alter or forge them because they depend on solid foundations for protection, encryption, security, ensuring the reliability of people and tracking their movement, and the movement of the document on the site. And this is what manual signatures lack. You can be sure that your document is free of tampering.

Electronic signature is secure for these reasons:

• It contains an electronic record. It is a record for keeping the details of all the actions and movements that were entered on the document, including opening, closing, modifying, signing, and sometimes the place and time of signing.
• Using the Pki key, a stamp that is placed on the document after signing it, ensures that the contents of the document are not tampered with.
• Using SAML encoding to confirm protection and give the user access to the web.
• It uses several methods to verify the identity of the signer such as a one-time phone or SMS access code, email address, personal verification questions, and ID card verification.
• Data handling and transmission via HTTPS.
• Getting a certificate of completion of the task.
• It includes a certificate of acknowledgment from the signatory that he agrees to use the electronic signature at the time and place specified during signing and access. It saves the IP code from the device entered and from which the signature was sent.
• It is used as a security standard to maintain credit cardholder information after PCI DSS payment.
• E-signature uses programs that guarantee confidence and security, away from risks and manipulation.
• It provides training to cadres and staff in the security management of systems, the practice of secure coding, code reviews, and codebase audits.
• You may use an encrypted connection when inviting someone to sign or receiving signed files.
• You can identify the Signer ID via emails, text messages, or through a webcam.

The security level and service provider:

There is a discrepancy in the levels of security according to the e-signature service provider and you should choose this provider carefully in terms of the level of protection and security of the data.

E-signature service providers are concerned with maintaining systems by protecting the construction of systems and networks to save them from risks and malicious software.

They are also interested in taking care of these systems by providing protection for the data inside them and obligating employees assigned to this service to provide full data protection, adhere to the system's instructions, and not to change, or to control and verify signatures.

After this simple review of some security techniques for data protection and clarification of data protection issues and how physical and intangible systems deal with data and documents. Do you still have any doubt or concern regarding how much secure the electronic signatures are?

I think your situation has changed. You believe now these signatures are very secure. Start your journey now in electronic signatures and invest your effort, money, and time. Also, implement your projects and sign your documents peacefully.