The application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia.

VeriSign is one of the world’s leading providers of managed strong authentication services. These services enable enterprises to authenticate users, authorize their online activities and provide trust to conduct secure Web-based and other digital transactions. To fulfill different needs of enterprises, customers and business partners, VeriSign Managed Strong Authentication Services comes out with multiple choices of authentication, such as:

• One Time Password (OTP)
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Technology-Based Authentication

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Normally, VeriSign logo or signature can be easily seen in a log in page especially when the user login and password is needed to deal with sensitive matters. VeriSign uses digital certificates can also add value when Tivoli Access Manager encrypts customer information and transactional data and by enabling digital signatures to further secure monetary exchanges. Because the combined solution provides a multitiered program of transaction security—from authentication to access and encryption to digital signatures—end users are more likely to do business via online.


In Malaysia, E-Commerce has become more common these days in the business industries. Data confidentiality and integrity are one of the main concerns for an organization to give assurance and confidence to the end users. To ensure data confidentiality and integrity, all information transmitted over the Internet is encrypted using the 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol from VeriSign Certificate Authority. SSL is a secure way of transferring information between two computers on the Internet using encryption. Strong end to end encryption is also adopted within the bank's computer networks and resources.


The appliance of VeriSign has become broader, the growth of websites which applies this internet security service also become larger. The service is familiar to the end user whenever comes to money matters, they will enquire for the certificate for the assurance. Locally, maybank2u.com and www2.pbebank.com are among the bank websites that apply the service because of its e-banking which deals millions of transactions daily.

Below is the image of VeriSign's certification for Public Bank:

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