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Technical Readiness.

What it takes to operate sovereign trust infrastructure — security posture, governance model, and legal alignment.

Important. Bahamas Trust Gateway is designed for alignment with Bahamian electronic transactions law and future digital trust regulations. Nothing on this page constitutes a claim of statutory authority under a specific act. Specific certifications and attestations are pursued on a program basis.
Trust Provider Readiness
ISO 27001

Information security management system — readiness program in progress.

SOC 2 Type II

Independent attestation of security, availability, and confidentiality controls.

ISO 27701

Privacy information management extension to ISO 27001.

Independent penetration testing

Annual third-party offensive security testing across the stack.

Third-party security audits

Periodic external audits of architecture, code, and operations.

PKI governance

Documented policy, key ceremonies, and certificate lifecycle controls.

Certificate Authority model

Issuing authority hierarchy designed for sovereign trust.

Timestamping Authority model

Trusted timestamps applied to every act for legal evidentiary weight.

Data protection compliance

Alignment with the Data Protection Act and modern privacy practice.

Retention policies

Defined retention by record type, with legal-hold support.

Incident response

On-call rotation, runbooks, and notification commitments.

Disaster recovery

Cross-region replication and tested restore procedures.

Business continuity

Documented continuity plans for sovereign service obligations.

Audit controls

Append-only logs across identity, signature, notary, and approval events.

Role-based access control

Least-privilege roles across operators, agencies, and integrators.

Encryption at rest

AES-256 envelope encryption for all stored records and evidence.

Encryption in transit

TLS 1.2+ for all traffic; mutual TLS for system integrations.

Key management

Hardware-backed key management with documented custody.

Zero Trust architecture

Identity-aware, segmented access with no implicit network trust.

Legal and Regulatory Readiness
Electronic Communications and Transactions Act alignment

Designed to operate consistently with the Act.

Electronic signature legality

Signatures bound to verified identity and tamper-evident records.

Digital evidence admissibility

Audit trail and Trust Report designed to support admissibility.

Data Protection Act alignment

Lawful basis, minimization, subject rights, and retention controls.

Notary law review

Designed for review against Bahamian notarial practice.

Court procedure review

Filing artifacts designed for review against court rules.

Land registry exception review

Conveyancing flows designed for review against registry rules.

Records retention

Retention schedule by record type and statutory class.

Public verification rules

Public verification surfaces designed to be safe by default.

Government issuing authority rules

Authority of issuance recorded on every Trust Report.