Friday, June 20, 2008

The application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia

E-Commerce application had been widely used in today century but there is limitation when using it. Thus, the third party certification is very important when the customers dealing business through the internet and they do not need to worry there is fake retailers or the unsecure open network communication. This is the programmer that run by an independent institutions that licensed by the country law which it is trustable and reliable.

One of the third party certification programme is the MSC Trustgate Sdn Bhd, which is a Malaysian company and licensed Certification Authority (CA) in Malaysia since 1999 that helps to secure the open network communications and business transactions. They are offering complete security solutions and leading trust services that are needed by individuals, enterprises, government, and e-commerce service providers using digital certificates, digital signatures, encryption and decryption such as the finest 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.

The third party certification programme had made the E-Commerce more widely used without any worries. All the consumers can safely purchase their preferable products or services through the internet especially for those users who always doing the buying and selling goods such as the eBay users. Thus, all the transactions can be safely made and the company can operate the business more efficiently and effectively.

For more information on the MSC Trustgate, click on the link below;

http://www.msctrustgate.com/

Example of others third party certification programme is the VeriSign which provides a security that enables key transactions, protects data, and safely delivers information across myriad protocols and devices. They had protected over 900,000 web servers worldwide, so consumers can shop safely everyday through the internet. It is a trust between the buyer and seller. Example of the products are the VeriSign Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption is one of the most effective ways to establish that trust which secure e-commerce and communications for web sites, intranets, and extranets. The VeriSign Secured™ Seal is one of the most recognized trust marks on the Internet which can protects the server.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology protects your web site and makes it easy for the web site visitors to trust the company in three essential ways which enables encryption of sensitive information during online transactions, each SSL Certificate contains unique, authenticated information about the certificate owner and verifies the identity of the certificate owner when it is issued.

Each SSL Certificate consists of a public key and a private key. The public key is used to encrypt information while the private key is used to decipher it. When a Web browser points to a secured domain, a Secure Sockets Layer handshake authenticates the server and the client. An encryption method is established with a unique session key and secure transmission. This is useful when the company has online store or accept online orders and credit cards or the website need to process sensitive data such as address, birth date, license, or ID numbers. Lastly, to comply with privacy and security requirements besides to protect privacy and to gain consumer’s trust.

For further information, visit the link below;

http://www.verisign.com/

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