This program will include an overview of the digitization of data and transactions in today’s global economy, emphasizing the expanding need for digital signatures to ensure legal enforceability of digital transactions. It will then introduce digital signature technologies and why ZorroSign choose private, permissioned blockchain as the architecture for its digital signature solution—with a brief introduction to blockchain technology itself, and the differences between public blockchains used as cryptocurrencies and private blockchains used for distributed applications (dApps). It will describe the growing need for user authentication and document verification to ensure enforceability of digital records, including immutability and auditing to verify the unbroken chain-of-custody digitally. The speaker will explain the risks of not ensuring user authentication, document verification, immutability, and unbroken chains-of-custody as businesses, governments, and individuals move to digital transactions and record-keeping. And will close tying digital signature security and the digital chain-of-custody to ADCG’s larger goal of increasing knowledge within organizations and across industry sectors on data management, cybersecurity, and governance.