The application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia.

What is 3rd party certification?

Third Party Certification (TPC) endorsement has been used as one of the methods to instill consumers’ trust. Creating initial trust through implementation of TPC is very important because the consumer has a tendency to trust brand names. The TPC programme requires the posting of a website privacy statement to inform a visitor about what personal information a web site may collect from them and how it will be used and disclosed among other features.

MCS Trustgate.com Sdn Bhd is a licensed Certification Authority ( CA ) operating within the Multimedia Super Corrider. MSC Trustgate was started their operation in Malaysia since 1999. It offers complete security solution and leading trust service that are needed by all the categories. Msc Trustgate helps to secure the open network communications and business transaction. The vision of Trustgate is to enable organizations to conduct their business securely over the Internet, as much as what they have been enjoying in the physical world.

Trustgate provide Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to assist all the companies in conducting their business over the Internet. PKI Technologies help the organizations to enhance the security of the data and manage identification credentials from users and organization. It helps to secure by based on the exchange of digital certificates between authenticated users and trusted resources. The E-Commerce users can design their own PKI to meet the preferable security and technical requirements of their organization such as confidentiality where PKI users will use it to encrypt data that is stored or transmitted.

3rd party certification program will enhance customer trust because of:

1.Efficient of management of digital certificates.

· Customer authorization for digital certificate and certificate issuance is done via Web-based service. Both customer and administrator services are browser-based and accessed via the Web. Hence it will boost customer trust because they can access the digital certification and can inquiry about the certificate through online.

2.Complete control over digital certificate issuance, usage, certificate content.

· By having this application customer would have complete control over the service level and certificate unlike other public CA deployment model which customer only can rely on the public CA.

3.Easy to use and manage with Web-based user and administrator services.

· Customer can register or apply for extra certification through via web hence it will enable the customer to more believe on the third party programme because so easy to use and doesn’t have huge procedure to follow in order to register it.

4.Scalability

· Customer will have a better solution provided by the administrator if got certain or any threats happen toward the company system. They customer can contact the administrator hence the administrator will provide a solution to the customer to solve the problem. Hence it will increase customer trust because efficient and effective managed of the program.

VeriSign SSL Certificates is the public encrypted key that Webmaster sends to CA which is a standard part of most web server and web browser packages when works in conjunction with the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. VeriSign will review the credentials and check through all the background of organization to ensure that the claim of organization before issuing any server certificate. The browser will verify its business purpose through ID automatically when browser connects to a legitimate site with VeriSign SSL Certificates. After that, information received by Web visitor is identical to encryption between browser and server and no modification is taken place.

VeriSign is one of trust brand on internet to further enhance operation of e-commerce because it gives confidence to customer in communication and online business transactions. In turn, the company will receive accurate information that the customer could not refute later. Additional protection against the misuse and expired certificates is provided. Thus, there was nearly one million times that people have clicked on VeriSign Secured Seals during year 2002.

Related links
1. http://www.msctrustgate.com
2. http://www.verisign.com