Certificate Authentication

Introduction to PKI

• Basic Security Concepts
• Public Key Infrastructure Defined
• Digital Certificates and Signatures
• Smart Cards
• PKI Standards

Basic cryptography

• Uses of Cryptography
• History of Cryptography including early methods
• Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption plus Algorithms
• Diffie-Hellman Key Generation
• Hashing for Integrity plus Algorithms

Practical uses for encryption and associated issues

• Signed and Encrypted Email using S/MIME and PGP
• Secure connections to websites
• Digitally signing PDFs
• Encrypting files
• Encrypting hard drives
• Encrypting “containers”
• SSL, VPN and Wireless
• PKI and Cloud Computing
• Attacks on Encryption

Certificate Authorities

• Public v Private CAs
• Regulations governing CAs
• CA Certificate Policies
• Types of Certificates Provided
• CA Hierarchies
• Certificate Authority Operations
• Certificate expiration
• Certificate revocation
  • Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
  • Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
• Key recovery
• Installing a CA and issuing certificates
• Certificate Templates

Summary

• Top 5 Deployment Issues
• Top 10 Risks
• Advanced PKI Topics and Futures
• Summary of Public Key Infrastructure