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is a welcome speech by Mr V Mathivanan, CEO of CrimsonLogic
for Singapore PKI Technology Centre Launch.
This is an important time in the business world.
It is a time for us to find new ways to do business
in the face of keen competition. A time for us
to leverage on the Internet for seamless connection
to our customers and partners worldwide. And a
time for us to address the challenge of Internet
security to harness the power of eCommerce.
With the adoption of the Internet by organisations
to streamline business processes, build new revenue
models and serve customers more conveniently,
there is now a widespread need for secure, reliable
digital identity and signing technology.
As a result, electronically signed documents
are seen as a viable and attractive alternative
to paper forms and contracts. And PKI has since
emerged as the standard for generating secure
digital signatures.
As a founder of the Pan Asian eCommerce Alliance
since the year 2000, we are currently driving
an initiative to conceptualise a cross-border
security framework to facilitate trade in the
global eCommerce world.
For this initiative, we are deploying PKI as
the security technology for the conceptual security
framework. Though there are other competing technologies,
PKI is increasingly becoming the mainstream security
backbone of many eCommerce trading facilities.
The main advantage of PKI technology is that
it ensures data integrity, authentication, confidentiality
and non-repudiation of any messages being exchanged.
This is essential for cross-border business transactions
where there is a lack of face-to-face interactions
and data exchanges.
To foster a secure eCommerce environment through
the use of PKI technology, there is a need for
mutual recognition of digital certificates by
Certificate Authorities. There is also a need
for a common platform for organisations to develop
and test new PKI technology and applications.
With these needs in mind, the first PKI Technology
Centre in Singapore is thus born to promote a
secure eCommerce environment.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that we
have been appointed by the PKI Forum Singapore
to operate the Singapore PKI Technology Centre.
Over the years, we have gained a great wealth
of experience in PKI. We have managed the technical
operations of the internal Certificate Authority
for the Singapore Supreme Court, as well as the
technical operations of Singapore's first certified
national Certificate Authority, ID.Safe.
Together with our security subsidiary RadianTrust,
we have developed and implemented the Singapore
PKI Technology Centre to provide a physical premise
for companies to conduct interoperability testing.
In addition to the facilities provided by the
Singapore PKI Technology Centre, we can provide
you with proven advice for your PKI experimental
projects. Provide you with consultation and security
services for your PKI implementation. And help
you implement and host your PKI to meet your business
requirements.
With the strong support from the PKI Forum Singapore,
I have no doubt that the Singapore PKI Technology
Centre will help accelerate the adoption of PKI
in the region.
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