Entity already brings together six companies that represent 90% of the market
Companies that work in digital certification now have an association: the National Association for Digital Certification (ANCD). Businessman Júlio Cosentino, who is vice president of Certisign, was chosen to preside over the entity. For the executive director, who will head the ANCD and be its spokesperson, the group of founding associates will nominate Antonio Sérgio Borba Cangiano, who has extensive experience in the IT segment and has worked in important groups such as Serpro, IMA , Prodesan, IBM, Unisys, Origin, ITI, among others.
“Our first associates are Certisign, Serasa, Valid, Boa Vista, Soluti and ACBr. These six companies represent 90% of the digital certification market”, informs Cangiano. According to the executive director, these companies are private, but all others in the segment, including public ones, will be invited to participate in the new entity. According to Antonio Sergio Borba Cangiano, the objective of the ANCD will be to promote digital certification and its relations with society, in order to contribute to the economic and social development of the country, in addition to clarifying doubts regarding the segment and highlighting the importance to make a digital certificate.
For Antonio Cangiano, because of the enormous security benefits of its use on the internet and the value it adds to the document, digital certification guarantees the integrity of content, certainty of authorship and legal validity in all national and international forums. “We will show the general public that this technology is current and represents the future of relationships. Certification has become the best option in relation to traditional models, so much so that our Justice already widely uses digital certification in the analysis and conduct of processes”.
ANCD will act to show these advantages in terms of security and facilities that digital certification makes possible. It is very important to highlight, according to Cangiano, that in addition to being a safe instrument, digital certification has legal validity. “Documents signed through certification have the same validity as physical papers, which require collection of signatures, notarization, registrations, authentications, displacements and other bureaucratic measures, which lead people and companies to spend more and waste a lot of time” .
Digital certification eliminates bureaucracy and saves time, and this reduces direct and indirect costs, such as maintaining spaces to store documents. “We want to point out that digital certification allows working in a universe that practically does not use paper”. To give you an idea, since the implementation of the electronic invoice, more than 10 billion invoices have not been issued, with the consequent saving of paper, time, shipping costs and spaces for storing these documents. Until the month of February, another very relevant data that shows the evolution of digital certification, 9.353 million certificates were issued, equivalent to a growth of 15% per year. According to Julio Cosentino, the sector represents a technological evolution. “The advancement of our entity will certainly reflect this new reality, the relevance of the certifying sector”.
The entity began to be formulated in September last year. “Over the course of more than six months, during which the ANCD was born, everything was very well discussed. We are going to promote, educate on digital certification, improve the industry's relations with the Powers, acting with a modern code of ethics and adequate to new technologies and the promotion of sustainable business”, concluded the executive director of the new association.
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