The application of 3rd Party certification program in Malaysia

To maximize the benefit of e-commerce, security of e-commerce are becoming the important factor of growing of the globalization e-commerce. MSC Trustgate.com Sdn Bhd is the most popular application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia to secure the open network communications from both locally and across the ASEAN region. It is a licensed Certification Authority (CA) which operating in the Multimedia Super Corridoor in Malaysia in 4th March1999.The vision of Trusgate is clear which stated that “To enable organizations to conduct their business securely over the Internet, as much as what they have been enjoying in the physical world.”


Trustgate is licensed under the Digital Signature Act 1997 (DSA). As a Certification Authority, Trustgate’s core business is to provide digital certification services such as digital certificates, cryptographic products, and software development. Besides that, The products and services of Trustgate are SSL Certificate, Managed PKI, Personal ID, MyTRUST, MyKAD ID, SSL VPN, Managed Security Services, VeriSign Certified Training and Application Development Trustgate are committed to provide the finiest Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to assist all tpes of companies and institutions conducting their business over the internet.



VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) is an American company which incorporated in 1995 at California. This company is the trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world. VeriSign, Inc. has extended its existing reseller relationship with MSC trustgage Sdn Bhd by entering into an additional agreement to deliver a range of advanced identity authentication services in Malaysia on 20th October, 2008. Under the new strategic agreement, MSC Trustgate will resell the VeriSign® Identity Protection (VIP) and VeriSign® Unified Authentication Services. These services offer businesses strong authentication for protecting the online identities of their customers, business partners and employees.

In our life, we can usually found out the Digital certificate through an e-mail message or some web page that provide credit card payment or some personal private data to verifies who they claim to be. User authentication, digital signatures and encryption is very common function of the digital certificate. Digital signatures are the signature that we use in digital world and to identify someone identity. Besides, the security of the webpage that we need to login our ID and password is relate to the User authentication. By using the information encrypted, Encryption can transferred the important information data in more secure way. The data we sent will not sent wrong to other people.

Fraud and identity theft have created a chilling effect on e-commerce and it is one of the fastest growing crimes in Malaysia. As we know, gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of e-commerce. From the point of view of e-commerce company, they need to make sure the website is earns its full potential by increasing customer confidence when they involve themselves in the e-transaction. By using the Digital certificate, it will increase the confident of consumer to involve in e-commerce transaction.

For more information about MSC, please log on to:
http://www.verisign.com/ssl/ssl-information-center/ecommerce-trust-ssl/index.html
http://www.msctrustgate.com/about_us.htm
http://www.verisign.co.nz/press/2008/20081020.html
http://www.verisign.com/ssl/index.html?sl=t72030166150000002&set=b034738&gclid=CJab3O2OrZsCFYEvpAodPHQZCg
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