The application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia

The term “Third Party” is usually used in the connection with any relationship between two parties or entities to refer to some other person or entity with some involvement. In other words, third party certification agency is a reliable party to ensure public's welfare. Third party certification programme in Malaysia include Trustgate and VeriSign.

Trustgate, is a licensed Certification Authority in Malaysia since the year of 1999 to meet the growing need for secure open network communications. Trustgate provides both security solutions and leading trust services for different level of community. These include individuals, organisations, government and e-commerce service providers using digital certificates, digital signatures, encryption and decryption. With the vision of “To enable organizations to conduct their business securely over the internet, as much as what they have been enjoying in the physical world”, Trustgate work towards its vision and successfully become the leading service provider of internet utility company and be a world-class e-environment.

Follow by the VeriSign, is the world's leading internet Certification Authority. A trusted third party that authenticates, issues and manages digital certificates on the internet. VeriSign has the goal to create and operate transformational infrastructure that becomes indispensable to society. Verisign's innovators are non stop conducting technology and business research from time to time in order to further this goal and ensure it is achieved. VeriSign provides a critical layer of intelligence and security that enables key transactions, protects data and information to be safely delivered. VeriSign also provide the authentic site services. Authentic site is a web site which operates a secure server to secure the communications and encrypted transactions with site visitors through their browser connections. A company needs to submit documentation to VeriSign in order to become an Authentic site. VeriSign will then check and verify the company's right to use a specific company name and internet address. After the investigation is done and VeriSign is satisfy with it, VeriSign will issue that particular site a server digital ID as the site's unique identity card and can be viewed by visitors to the site. Besides that, VeriSign also come out with this VeriSign's Authenticode. It is a well known technology in the market which a lot of the people have already come across it. It is a technology that reassures that the downloaded plug-in into the browser has not been tampered since the original developer complied it.

As a conclusion, with the help of these trusted third party as the reliable agency, internet users feel more secured when they performing their internet activities.