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The application of 3rd party certificate programme in Malaysia




E-commerce is widely used around the world. In the developed country, the usage of e-commerce is extremely high as compare to Malaysia. The main issue that Malaysian does not practice e-commerce in daily life is because they feel unsecure. They are worrying that their personal details will be disclosed in the internet since there is lots of fake website and online fraud existed.

Therefore, 3rd party certification program took place to ensure the securities of users where a digital certificate issued. A digital certificate is a digital document that provides verification that your website does indeed represent your company and it will valid for a certain period of time.

MSC Trustgate

The most popular 3rd party certification program in Malaysia, MSC Trustgate.com Sdn Bhd, is corporate in 1999. It is licensed under the Digital Signature Act 1997 (DSA), a Malaysia law that sets a global precedent for the mandate of a Certificate Authority (CA). CA's goal is "To enable organization to conduct their business securely over the Internet, as much as what they have been enjoying in the physical world."


Why is the 3rd party certification needed?

Ø There are threats of internet security spreading over the net nowadays.
For example, with the increase of phishing on the internet; customers want to make sure that whether they are dealing business with a trusted party. They are afraid of their personal information such as ID number, passwords, credit card numbers and so on may be misused. Thus, the certification from 3rd party is needed to ensure their information traveled over the Internet reaches the intended recipients safely.

Ø It provides e-mail protection and validation, secure online shopping carts and more services in order to avoid being hacked and attacked by the macilious software such as virus, worms and trojan horse.

Ø More safeguard for online shopping. When the customers are confident in particular organization, it will enhance the sales in that particular company indirectly.

As a conclusion, a secure infrastructure is essential on the E-commerce in order to protect the publishers and users. The establishment of Certificate Authority plays a vital role not only to issue digital certificate but also have to ensure the security of E-commerce website. We, as an Internet users, must be aware with the security trademark to prevent from become a victim of security issues.