The application of 3rd party certification programmed in Malaysia

Nowadays, there are many businessmen that compete with each other in order to gain more profit. Consumers, nowadays are more likely to make comparison in many things compare to last time. Therefore, in order for an organisation to remain their customers, the application of third party certification programme is important for them. This is especially important in the fast changing Internet security and e-commerce environment.

Third party certification is a scientific process in which the company product or services is reviewed by an unbiased and independent third party to verify the set of standard and process that are being met. The third party certification not only can help an organisation and consumers to save their time but also can help them save money in cleaning product.

MSC Trustgate has been appointed as Asia's first VeriSign Authorized Training Centre. MSC Trustgate is the qualified licensed CA (Certification Authority) in Malaysia and has started to expand its service offering to other Asian countries, such as Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. One of the services that offer by MSC Trustgate is MYTRUST.

This service was launched by Trustgate recently and the function was to provide security to the transaction on the mobile platform. MYTRUST encourage even more mobile application services in the financial and government sector. Besides that, this provision (mobile application) will allow the market for mobile banking and mobile commerce in the region to take off effectively.

VeriSign is the trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world. This service help user engage in communications and commerce with more confidence. MSC Trustgate has been an affiliate of Verisign ad their purpose is to focused on reselling the Verisign’s Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) services to businesses and government, incorporating digital certificates, digital signatures and encryption.

SSL is a protocol originally developed by Netscape to ensure the security of e-commerce transactions, which was for transmitting private documents securely via the Internet (World Wide Web). SSL creates a secure connection between a client and a server, over which any amount of data can be sent securely. S-HTTP is designed to transmit individual messages securely.

PKI is to assist all type of companies and institution conducting their business over the internet. The state of the art back-end infrastructure is probably one of the best in the region. Project that have been implemented such as Malaysian government has been put in place a smart National Identify Card (MyKad) for every citizen. PKI capability allow Mykad holder to conduct online transaction with government agencies and other sectors.

Lastly, in my opinion, if applying this 3rd party certification, there will be more safeguard. Therefore, the customer can shop safely and more confidently. When the confidentiality of customers towards the internet has been enhanced and hence the organizations will be able to earn more profits.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS141621+22-Feb-2008+PRN20080222
http://www.verisign.com.sg/press/2008/20081020.html