Sunday, June 22, 2008

The application of 3rd party certification in Malaysia


Third party certificate is a digital certificate that is used to verify identity, protect personal data, secure websites and online shopping carts and more. Third party certificate also can be called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate. SSL is the standard security technology for creating an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browser remains confidential. SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers. In order to be able to generate an SSL link, a web server requires an SSL Certificate.

When a customer wants to send the credit card information to purchase the item, the customer wants to know that the confidential information is secure and sent to the company. So, digital certificate that is issued by trusted 3rd party provides verification that the website does indeed represent your company, thereby verifying your company's identity.

SSL certificate plays an important role in online commerce. The first matter customers considered is the private information they provided is remained confidential. Once they satisfied their private information is secure, then only they will consider buying the product. So, it is important that the security is integrated into any online services.

The certificate is issued by the certificate authority. One of the certificate authorities in Malaysia is Trustgate. It is a licensed certificate authority in Malaysia since 1999. It also offers other services other than issuing SSL certificate such as delivery of security and e-commerce training, managed security services, application development and system integration.

The e-commerce or online services provides us a lot of benefits but there are risks in using them, so the SSL certificate is essential to give confidence to the customers that the websites that they are using are trustworthy.

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