Riyadh, 11 Rabi 1438 AH corresponding to January 09 2017 SPA -- The National Center for Digital Certification of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has accredited King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center as a services provider for governmental certification as the hospital has been able to meet requirements of the center successfully. The accreditation aims to achieve a high level of confidence in e-government transactions, and employment of appropriate security technologies, policies and developed procedures and enable the hospital to benefit from the center's services, issue its needs of digital certificates to the beneficiaries of electronic services, and activate the services of digital certificates such as verification of identity, electronic signature, data encryption, and addressing the shortcomings of the difficulty to ascertain the identity of the transacting parties electronically. The center provides services in the electronic transaction market through an integrated system for infrastructure management of public keys. --SPA 14:25 LOCAL TIME 11:25 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w308913