Pitney Bowes offers pbSecure, a secure certificate management system for issuing tamper-evident degrees and marksheets. PbSecure uses patented hardware and cryptography to encrypt student data on degrees. This allows degrees to be instantly verified online or offline without contacting the issuing authority. Pitney Bowes has invested millions in developing this technology and offers it with a revenue-generating model for online verification services.

1. pbSecureTM for
Indian Universities & Educational Boards
Tamper Evident Degrees & Marksheets with
‘Issuer Independent’ Verification (Online+Offline)
(A MOVE, AWAY FROM ‘COST-ONLY’ PROCESS TOWARDS ‘COST+REVENUE’ PROCESS)
$ 5.4B GLOBAL MNC SINCE 92 YEARS

2. About pbSecureTM
pbSecureTM is Pitney Bowes’ ground-breaking and indigenously developed Secure Certificate
Management System for Creation of Degree Certificates and Mark Sheets; which is based on its
global expertise in the field of Secure Evidencing technology.
pbSecureTM is a hybrid solution consisting of patented hardware & a software application built
around highly advanced Cryptographic & PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technology
The technology behind pbSecureTM is built on a platform that is used globally by Pitney Bowes
to secure billions of dollars of annual government revenue. Pitney Bowes is known world over
for pioneering the concept of secured evidencing, starting with postage payment in US way
back in 1920.
Pitney Bowes has spent millions of dollars in R&D for several years to develop the
cryptography technology in pbSecureTM and is uniquely enabled to provide a Secure
'Certificate Management System' for Creation of Degree Certificates and Mark Sheets.
Certificates created using pbSecureTM are secured & any modifications can very easily be
detected and reported. Verification of these certificates is possible both online and offline
environment – with ZERO involvement/overhead of issuing authority.
Pitney Bowes offers to invest in implementing its worldwide proven and Patent-Protected
technology at your organization to protect your Degrees & marksheets from tampering; along
with a revenue generation Model built around Online Verification without any administrative
overhead to your organization.
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3. pbSecureTM – Solution Capabilities
ONLY SOLUTION  Freedom from expensive & time consuming Paper-
Based Physical Security features.
which can successfully replace
Paper-Based Physical Security  In-House & On-Demand generation with
Features TM
‘pbSecure ’ security feature
ONLY SOLUTION  On-Spot Verification without any need to connect
back to a Database.
With Online Verification without
any need for an Online/Offline  No Need to maintain, update & safeguard a central
Database. database.
ONLY SOLUTION  Issuer Independent Verification
which guarantees reliable &
 ZERO Overhead/Manpower Cost for Verifications
instant verification without
contacting the issuer  Instant ‘Anyone-Anywhere-Anytime’ verification.
ONLY SOLUTION
which enables verification even  Every Copy (of the original) becomes a
from Copies (Photocopies & True copy.
Scans)
ONLY SOLUTION  Due to quick-on-spot verification process, more
people opt for verification services
COST+Revenue Model but
with ZERO additional Verification  Increased & Effortless In-Flow of Revenue from
workload verifications.
ONLY SOLUTION  Completely in-house process.
which works entirely in-house &  Protects data from internal threats & also from
safeguards original parent database external/online attacks since the Data is never
hosted online or on a Web Server.
ONLY SOLUTION  Automated MIS reports for every single document
which automates Generation of Generated.
Secured print-ready files of
Degrees/Marksheets  MIS Reports of Failed/Passed Verifications.
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4. How Does pbSecureTM Work
The process involves capturing the valuable data points on a Document and securing them by
processing through pbSecure's patented cryptographic encryption system which is a
combination of Patented Hardware & Software/Application.
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5. The pbSecureTM produces a PDF document as per organization’s template/design, which carries
the valuable data points in an encrypted format - A 2D Barcode is used merely as a medium to
carry & deliver the encrypted information. Since the Encrypted data carried via the 2D-Barcode
cannot be deciphered by human eye, it therefore cannot be tampered with.
pbSecureTM executes successful & 100% reliable verification remotely by merely enabling any
verifier to read the original encrypted information using pbSecure technology & then
comparing it with whatever is visible on the physical document.
Any document which carries a code not generated by a valid & authentic issuer is immediately
detected as a fake by pbSecureTM online & offline verification ecosystem.
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