{"id":33311,"date":"2024-01-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/viafirmas-centralized-certificate-explanation-and-example\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:51:58","slug":"viafirmas-centralized-certificate-explanation-and-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viafirma.com\/en\/viafirmas-centralized-certificate-explanation-and-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Viafirma’s Centralized Certificate: explanation and example"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The use of digital certificates<\/strong>, either for the electronic signature<\/a> of documents (especially in the corporate environment) or to interact with electronic offices<\/strong>, is becoming increasingly widespread<\/strong>. It is a mechanism that has been postulated as one of the best alternatives to face-to-face procedures.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The advantages are indisputable in that sense and have meant a great saving of time, effort and resources for all types of companies. However, in order to use a digital certificate<\/strong>, it must be installed on the device <\/strong>on which we are carrying out the procedure. This can be a big problem<\/strong> if, for example, we only have it installed on one of our devices and it is different from the one we have access to at that moment. We could also have it installed on all devices with the security risk<\/strong> that this entails.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Viafirma Fortress<\/a>, Viafirma’s centralized certificate, was born to give an answer to this kind of inconveniences.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

What is Fortress, Viafirma’s centralized certificate?<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Viafirma’s centralized certificate, or Fortress, is a tool that offers the possibility to make use of our digital certificate from any device, without the need to be installed in it<\/strong>. That is to say, it allows us to have our certificate in the cloud.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In addition to guaranteeing full access from any location<\/strong>, it provides maximum security mechanisms<\/strong> since the certificate and its private keys are housed in an HSM. Broadly speaking, an HSM is a hardware device that includes a cryptoprocessor so that sensitive data, in this case, all data related to a digital certificate, is stored and managed in encrypted form<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

That is to say, Viafirma Fortress allows us to have our digital certificate in the cloud<\/strong> with the highest security level that guarantees its protection and confidentiality.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Advantages of the cloud certificate<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As we have been saying, the main advantages of the certificate in the cloud lie in the security and remote access to the digital certificate<\/strong>, but we are going to expand on these aspects:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n