Monday, June 29, 2009

The Application of 3rd Party Certification in Malaysia


The Application of 3rd Party Certification in Malaysia


3rd party is called certificate authorities who issue digital certificate to provide verification to website does indeed represent your company. It is needed where threats of internet security spreading over the net nowadays. This program is one of the methods to provide confidence and satisfaction to customer for surfing the website. Through this program, people would ensure that their information is free from threat or viruses where there is a high increment of phishing and spoofing on the internet nowadays.


The most common application of third party certification in Malaysia is provided by MSC Trustgate.com Sdn Bhd built-in 1999 which licensed Certification Authority (CA) open business within Multimedia Super Corridor. The vision of Trustgate is clear “To enable organizations to conduct their business securely over the internet, as much as what they have been enjoying in the physical world”. The objective of MSC Trustgate is to secure the open network communications from both locally and across the ASEAN region. They also offer complete full set of security solutions that needed by individuals, enterprises, government and e-commerce providers. Trustgate core business is to provide certification services include Managed Security Service, Verisign Certified Training, Application Development, MyKAD ID, MyTRUST, Personal ID, Managed PKI, SSL Certificate and SSL VPN.


MyKAD PKI (My Key), Malaysian government has put in smart National Identity Card(“MyKad”) for every citizen. It is governed by Malaysia’s Digital Signature Act 1997. MyKey, the MyKad PKI works with your physical MyKad, gives you permission to verify yourself online and to sign document and makes transaction accepted by the Malaysian government. MyKey modules includes MyKey application programming interface(API), signing module, verification module and MyKad client kit are offers to for developer who wishes to develop MyKad applications.


VeriSign enables secure e-commerce, communications, and interactions for websites, intranets and extranets. It gives a confidence to consumers because they provide convenience and high protects log-in to their accounts users. VeriSign will examination and make sure all of the background of organization to ensure that the claim of organization was correct before issues any server certificates. Business purpose will verify by browser through ID automatically when connects to a lawful site with VeriSign. Information received by web is identical to encryption between browser and server and no amendment will be taken place.


As conclusion, the establishment of Certificate Authority plays an important role by ensuring the security of e-commerce and prevents as from becoming a victim of security issues.

1 comment:

  1. i feel more secured purchasing stuff from websites with these applications

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