The digital certification office enables the university to issue, renew, and cancel digital certification certificates for recipients of electronic services. It also facilitates services like identity verification, electronic signature, and data encryption. This office is approved by the national center for digital certification of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Its purpose is to ensure secure electronic transactions and foster a high level of trust in e-government transactions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. By employing appropriate security technologies, advanced policies, and procedures, this initiative enables Northern Borders University to benefit from the services of the national center for digital certification. The university can issue digital certification certificates to its electronic service users and activate services like identity verification, electronic signature, and data encryption. These capabilities address the challenges related to verifying the identity of parties engaged in electronic transactions, detecting data tampering, and conducting secure electronic signatures.

The importance of digital certification:

• Identity verification: this enables customers to know and verify each other's identity definitively.
• Confidentiality of information: allowing the exchange of information so that others cannot know its nature.
• The integrity of the information: which detects any attempt to change the content of the information after transmission.
• Electronic signature: enabling the electronic signature process on electronic documents with the ability of the recipient to verify the authenticity of the signatures.