Patent ID: 8874923

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, from a device of an intended signer, a request to access and sign a document; determining a policy assigned to the intended signer, wherein the determining of the policy comprises: determining a group to which the intended signer belongs, wherein a group to which a signer belongs is determined by the organization the intended signer is affiliated with, and determining the policy assigned to the group; determining whether an authentication mechanism is applicable to the intended signer based on the policy assigned to the intended signer, wherein an authentication mechanism specifies an action that the intended signer performs in order to be authenticated such that a signature of the intended signer is accepted; in response to determining that the authentication mechanism is applicable to the intended signer, determining a respective authentication mechanisms from a plurality of authentication mechanism and causing a user interface indicating a request to perform the respective authentication mechanism to be presented to the intended signer; and providing access to view and sign the document based on the intended signer satisfying the respective authentication mechanism.