Certificate Authorities (CAs)

Certificate Authorities (CAs) are the third parties that issue digital certificate to provide verification that your website does indeed represent your company. One of the certificate authorities is MSC Trustgate.com Sdn Bhd. It is a licensed CA in Malaysia which incorporated in 1999, under the Digital Signature Act 1997 (DSA). It offers complete security solutions for individuals, organizations, government, and e-commerce service providers by digital certificates, encryption and decryption.
The objective of MSC Trustgate is to secure the open network communications from both locally and across the ASEAN region. Trustgate provide digital certification services such as digital certificates, cryptographic products and software development. 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. The vision of Trustgate is to enable organizations to conduct their business securely over the internet, as much as what they have been enjoying in the physical world.

VeriSign is the leading Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Authority which also enabling the security of e-commerce, communications, and interactions for Web sites, intranets, and extranets. It provides security solutions to protect an organization’s consumers, brand, Web site, and network.

Why is the 3rd party certification needed? The reason is 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, will be sent to those companies which do not exist in this real world. Thus, the certification from 3rd party is needed to ensure their information travelled over the Internet reaches the intended recipients and is safe.

Besides that, those parties are needed because they can provide e-mail protection and validation, secure online shopping carts and more services in order to avoid being spammed, hacked and attacked by the malicious software such as virus, Trojan horse and worms.

By using the digital certificate, there are more safeguard for online shopping , where the users can be able to make transaction on the internet without fear of having the personal data being stolen, information contaminated by third parties, and the transacting party denying any commercial commitment with the users. In addition, the confidentiality of customers towards the internet can also be enhanced; therefore, the digital certificates can assist the development of greater internet based activities.