ENHANCING WORKFLOW SECURITY FOR LARGE SCALE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Information security is a very delicate matter because more and more information is sent electronically and some of it requires special handling and quality standards. The strength and security offered by system using PKI is proven by the multiple examples of existing solutions that are built the same way and are around us for some time. Paper documents that need to be filled out and signed are always around us and often can cause problems and delays when poorly managed. With its characteristics, the proposed solution described in this paper hopes to eliminate all the inconvenient of the paper documents helped by the document library and workflows, while keeping the security part, now represented by hand signatures with the implementation of the digital signatures. The novelty of proposed solution is represented by creation of an offline application capable of using digital certificates to digitally sign or encrypt digital document. We studied the application requirement and came up with a modular and scalable architecture allowing for a quick and easy future development. We present the deploying of online portal for managing the document libraries and workflows in large scale distributed environment.