NATIONAL CENTER for DIGITAL CERTIFICATION – SAUDI ARABIA
The Electronic Transactions Law was issued by Royal Decree No. (M / 18) dated 3/8/1428 AH with the aim of organizing the use of digital transactions, signatures, indicating their binding authority. The Electronic Transactions Law assigned the task of supervising the certification and digital signature to a national centre established in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology under the name “National Centre for Digital Certification”.
In 1440 AH the Minister of Communications and Information Technology issued a decision to transfer the National Centre For Digital Certification to the e-government program “Yesser”.
VISION :
Leading locally and internationally recognized digital certification system that supports digital transformation goals
MISSION :
Governance and development of the digital certification system at the national level to support the goals of digital transformation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (digital government and the digital economy) by ensuring that all types of electronic transactions are carried out with high reliability and give them legal validity.
The National Centre for Digital Certification provides many SERVICES, as follows:
1) Qualifying entities to obtain licenses to provide digital authentication services and digital trust.
2) Connecting government agencies with digital certification and trust platforms and services.
3) Digital signature service.
4) Digital seal service.
5) Timestamp service.
6) Encryption service.
7) Consulting service.
8) Accreditation service
9) Training and awareness service.
10) Audit and compliance service.
ACHIEVEMENTS :
- Initial launch of the digital signature platform for government employees.
- The launch of the national platform for the digital stamp
- Adobe recognized the digital certificates issued by the National Center for Digital Certification for the third time in a row
- Maintaining Microsoft’s recognition for the seventh consecutive year
- Received WebTrust certification for the 8th consecutive time
- Qualifying companies to provide commercial certification services
- Issuing digital certification standards for the financial sector through the Saudi Central Bank
- Review and audit of government certification service providers to ensure their compliance with the procedures and policies of the National Center for Digital Certification
- Providing digital signature services to many governmental and commercial agencies through commercial certification service providers.
- The launch of the national timestamp platform.
- Issuing and publishing the policies and procedures of digital certification services and their infrastructure on the website, and adopting the policies and procedures of licensed commercial digital. certification service providers.
- Providing digital certification services to the banking sector.
- Initial launch of digital signature validation platform.
Website : www.ncdc.gov.sa