The application of third party certification programme in Malaysia

Third party called certificates authorities. A certificates contains holder’s name, validity period, public key information and a signed hast of the certificate data.

Third party certification programme is an authority and authentication that ensures trust, privacy and safety between each individual, company and entities.

Defenses of third party certification programme

• Confidentiality – it is refers to information held by an organization that it necessary to protect securely. For instance, bank must protect clients’ sensitive personal information. Clients want to be assured that information they provided for processing or storage is protected and only accessible to authorized users.
• Authentication – it is requires evidence such as password or signature.
• Availability – tools such as software and hardware help ensure availability.

VeriSign is the best known of the certificates authorities. VeriSign provides several of security and telecom services such as digital certificates and e-payments. VeriSign is the leading Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which is certificate authority enable secure e-commerce, communications and interactions through web sites, intranets and extranets. SSL defined a protocal that utilizes standard certificates for authentication and data encryption to ensure privacy or confidentiality. Actually SSL is renamed as Transport Layer Security (TLS), however, many people never changed and still use it as SSL. For instance using SSL such as Maybank online credit card payments.


VeriSign Secured Seal is part of VeriSign®SSL Service. SSL assist deliver a secure and convenient way for everyone to interact over the internet. In addition, VeriSign Secured Seal is the most trusted security mark on the internet and gain confidence to complete everyone tasks or transactions.


Webtrust is a certification authorities that protected against unauthorized access. Since the information or transaction share with a website can be misused or stolen. The trust service security priciple addresses concerned by ensuring that business maintain secure sites for e-commerce such as e-payments.

Public key infrastructure (PKI) defined a scheme for securing e-payments using public key encryption and several technical components. It refer such as digital signature. Digital signature is a term used for marking or signing an electronic documents. It is based on public keys for authenticating the identiy of the sender of a message or document. There are exhibit shown that the process of digital signature.


In effect, third party certification programme is play a significance role for organization in Malaysia. They are provide trust, privacy and safety ensure that client’s personal information or transaction is protected and availabitlity over the period. Hence, the effectiveness of third party certification programme in enhancing security is sustaintable.

Reference:

http://www.verisign.com/

http://www.webtrust.org/index.cfm/ci_id/44946/la_id/1.htm

http://www.webtrust.org/index.cfm/ci_id/44946/la_id/1.htm