MSC Trustgate gets 5 year CA licence from MCMC, to expand services

KUALA LUMPUR: MSC Trustgate.Com Sdn Bhd has received a new five-year certificate authority (CA) operating licence from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).

The renewal of the licence up to July 24, 2020 will enable the company, which is 29.5% owned by Managepay Systems Bhd (MPay), to expand its cyber security service offerings.

MPay provides of end-to-end electronic payment solutions while Trustgate’s core activities are the provision of digital certification services, cryptographic products, and security software development services. 

The renewal of the licence, MPay said, would enable Trustgate to continue its existing business offerings partnering Symantec and GlobalSign.

The offerings include the issuance of secure socket layer (SSL) certificates for web domain servers, hosting managed public key infrastructure (PKI) to issue digital certificates for individual subscribers of Internet banking system and government service portal.

MSC TrustGate received the CA operating licence at MCMC’s office at Cyberjaya. The CA operating licence is only one of three authorised by MCMC in Malaysia.

“The five-year period enables Trustgate to provide new cyber security products and services offerings to tackle the marked increase in the number of major data breaches and cyberattacks including high-profile penetrations at major retailers and attacks on media and government websites,” it said. 

MPay said these potential cyber security products and services included but not limited to the services such as single-sign-on platform and mobile OTP authentication platform.

The single-sign-on platform is to authenticate users accessing multiple applications at the same time. 

As for the mobile OTP authentication platform, it provides mobile device profiling, geo location fencing, push notifications and digital signature signing for banking, government and corporate application solution. 

Other services are PDF documents signing with digital signatures and time stamping and also securing mobile and Internet of Things devices with CA and SSL certificates.