CatSU employees join DICT orientation on digital transactions, eGovPH app
SETTING AND INFRASTRUCTURE (SI)To empower them to participate in
the government’s digitization initiatives, the Catanduanes State University
(CatSU) employees participated in the Philippine National Public Key
Infrastructure (PNPKI) orientation conducted by the Department of Information
and Communications Technology - Catanduanes (DICT) personnel on December 17,
2024.
According to DICT-Catanduanes,
the University was selected as one of the institutions to be introduced to the
PNPKI as it has been conducting both online and in-person transactions.
The Public Key Infrastructure
(PKI) helps create, manage, distribute, use, store, verify, and revoke digital
certificates, ensuring the security of electronic information transfer for
various network activities.
DICT resource speaker Mark Andrew
Erisare discussed the basics of PKI, and provided scenarios of its
implementation, such as preventing long lines, fraud, and facilitating easy
access for work-from-home setups.
He also discussed the use of PKI
in electronic signatures within digital certificates and transactions.
Erisare assured that tampering
with electronic signatures is not possible when using PKI, as it is designed to
provide authentication, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation.
PKI also reduces the costs
associated with delays in signing, transmitting, approving, and processing. A
demonstration of digital signatures using PKI was conducted during the seminar
which was held at the Quality Assurance room.
Meanwhile, Kerbie Villanueva who
was also from DICT, discussed the features and functions of the eGovPH
application.
