Third Party Certification Programme

One of the trusted third party certification programs in Malaysia is VeriSign®. VeriSign® is the trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the digital world. Billions of companies and consumers relies on their internet infrastructures to communicate and conduct commerce with confidence. VeriSign® is the leading Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Authority enabling secure e-commerce, communications, and interactions for Web sites, intranets, and extranets.
SSL technology protects business’s Web site and makes it easy for the Web site visitors to trust the Web Site in three ways. The first is through encryptions, SSL certificate enables encryption of sensitive information during online transaction. Encryption scrambles the data, creating an envelope for message privacy. Thus, blocking out any unauthorized access to the information.
Next is through authentication. SSL Certificate is able to authenticate a secure website because each Every VeriSign® SSL Certificate is created for a particular server in a specific domain for a verified business entity. So if the business is verified, by clicking the closed padlock in the browser window or certain SSL trust marks (such as the VeriSign Secured® Seal), the Web site visitor will see the authenticated organization name.
Lastly is verification,an SSL Certificate is issued by a trusted source, known as the Certificate Authority (CA). Many CAs simply verify the domain name and issue the certificate. VeriSign verifies the existence of business, the ownership of business domain name, and business’s authority to apply for the certificate.
By implementing these third party certification programme in Malaysia, it can reduces online fraud and promote online transaction as the consumers would not have to worry about fraudulent web sites. This will also enable the consumers to have confidence when doing online transaction as there is trusted certification.