The application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia

Third Party Certification program is a program to identify identity of a user in a company to prevent information of the company to been hack by other people.

The applicaton of 3rd party certification program in malaysia was shown or used by MSCTRUSTGATE. MSC TRUSTGATE is is a licensed certification authority operating out of the multimedia super corridor. It was incorporated in 1999. Trustgate was licensed under digital signature act 1997 hence the core business of Trustagate is to provide digital certification services.

Trustgate was implemented Managed Public Key Infrastructure (MPKI) service. MPKI is a system designed to help company to secure intranet, extranet, and Internet applications by maximize the company performance, and scalability with high availability and security.

The MPKI allow company to efficiently establish a robust Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Certification Authority (CA) system with complete control over security policies, PKI hierarchies, authentication models, and certificate lifecycle management. Trustgate’s high-availability certificate processing services, the service enables faster deployment and lower operating costs while providing an open platform that integrates with off-the-shelf solutions. hence it allow the company to save cost from providing own PKI.

Organizations can set up their own multiple digital certification program quickly, easily and economically, through our flexible managed service. With Managed PKI, you can issue 250 or more digital certificates to customers, suppliers, partners, or employees. This solution helps to protect on-line transactions, digitally sign them and control the access to intranets and extranets.

By providing 3rd party certification program it will enhance customer trust because of:

1. Efficient of management of digital certificates.
• Customer authorization for digital certificate and certificate issuance is done via Web-based service. Both customer and administrator services are browser-based and accessed via the Web. hence it will boost customer trust because them can access our the digital certification and can inquiry about the certificate through online.
2. Complete control over digital certificate issuance, usage, certificate content.
• By having this application customer would have complete control over the service level and certificate unlike other public CA deployment model which customer only can rely on the public CA. in addition by providing such services it will enhance customer trust because customer can know what is
  
3. Easy to use and manage with Web-based user and administrator services.
1. Customer can register or apply for extra certification through via web hence it will enable the customer to more believe on the third party programme because so easy to used and doesnt have huge procedure to follow in order to register it.
   
4. Scalability.
   
• Customer will have a better solution provided by the administrator if got certain or any threats happen toward the company system. then the customer can contact the administrator hence the administrator will provide a solution to the customer to solve the problem. hence it will increase customer trust because efficient and effective managed of the program.