The Erudition of E-commerce

Third party certification is an assessment carried out to ensure compliance with industry standard. This assessment is carried out by an independent, third party organization that is qualified and licensed to issue certification. Certification will be licensed when the assessment is completed sucessfully.

Third party certification programme was mainly applied in the food industry or manufacturing industry in the past; however it started to become popular in virtual business environment as e-commerce experienced a drastic growth during the recent decades. Nowadays, digital third party certification is being issued to websites to protect their servers security.

Third party certification is playing a significant role in e-commerce environment due to the overwhelming phishing cases on the internet, customers' concerns in the protection of their confidential data, and the frequent attacks by macilious software such as virus, trojan horse and worms.

The common functions of a digital certificate are user authentication, encryption and digital signatures. User authentication provides other security than using username and password. Its session management is stronger. Encryption can make the data transmission secured by using the information encrypted. The intended recipient of the data is only person to receive the message. Digital signatures are like the hand signature in the digital world. It can ensure the integrity of the data.

MSC Trustgate

MSC Trustgate was incorporated in 1999 with the vision “to enable organizations to conduct their business securely over the Internet, as much as what they have been enjoying in the physical world.”. MSC Trustgate has been operating within the Multimedia SuperCorridor and become the catalyst for the growth of e-commerce across the ASEAN region

The core business of Trustgate is to provide digital certification services such as digital certificates, software development and cryptographic products.

MSC Trustgate is one of the certificate authorities who issue digital certificate to provide verification that the website does indeed represent its company. . It provides products and services such as SSL Certificate, Managed PKI, Personal ID, MyTRUST, MyKAD ID, SSL VPN, Managed Security Services, VeriSign Certified Training and Application Development.

MSC Trustgate offers 2 types of SSL Certificates (digital third party certification) to its customers. Customer can choose in between the two products based on the length of the "session key" generated by every encrypted transaction. The longer the key, the more difficult it is to break the encryption code. 128-bit SSL encryption is the world's strongest: it would take a trillion-trillion years to crack using today's technology.

Global Server ID

GSID authenticates your web sites and enables 128- or 256-bit encryption to secure communications and transactions between the site and its visitors. Every purchase of GSID comes with a VeriSign Secured Seal that can be displayed on web site. The seal is an instant proof that the web site is genuine and build up the confidence of customers.

Secure Server ID

Secure Site SSL Certificates protect the transfer of sensitive data on Web sites, intranets, and extranets using a minimum of 40-bit and up to 256-bit encryption which includes VeriSign Secured Seal.

VeriSign

VeriSign, Inc. is founded in the year of 1995 and become the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world to engage in trusted communications and commerce.

The VeriSign Secured® Seal is displayed by over 90,000 domains in 145 countries and viewed over 150 million times every day.

Over 2.3 million VeriSign Identity Protection Credentials have been issued to use for strong authentication.

It also has appointed MSC Trustgate as Asia's first VeriSign Authorised Training Centre to deliver VeriSign's high-end Security and E-Commerce programmes. Including other security courses such as Watermarking and Wireless hacking, sniffing, penetration testing and etc.

In conclusion, by using the digital certificate, it will increase the trust of online users since it minimizes the exposion of confidential personal data, contamination of contaminated by third parties, and the cases of transacting party denying any commercial commitment with the users. Furthermore, the digital certificates definitely help in the development of internet based activities.

Related Links

http://www.verisign.com/

http://www.msctrustgate.com/