LAWtrust is first company in South Africa to be accredited as a provider of Advanced Electronic signatures.
In 2002, LAWtrust, became the first company in South Africa to be accredited by the Department of Communications as a provider of authentication products and services allowing them to issue digital certificates from their managed PKI environment
for the use in creating advanced electronic signatures as stipulated in the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act of 2002.
The advanced electronic certificates, required for advanced electronic signatures, are issued on state-of-the are cryptographic USB tokens that carry FIPS 140-2 level 2 accreditation. The tokens allow users to have peace of mind that their
security is protected whenever they are digitally signing documents.