Introduction:

This Public Key Infrastructure – Implement and Manage course helps any individual to gain knowledge in managing robust PKI and having better understanding of topics surrounding public key infrastructure. Moreover, the PKI course is a preparation for the increasingly critical component – which ensures confidentiality, integrity, and authentication in an enterprise. Our PKI course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to select, design and deploy PKI, to secure existing and future applications within your organization. It also gives a deeper look into the foundations of cryptography and the working principles of the algorithms being used. After completing the PKI course, each individual will be able to successfully design, setup, deploy, and manage a public key infrastructure (PKI). This course is considered essential for anyone who needs to understand Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and the issues surrounding its implementation. It covers the issues and technologies involved in PKI in-depth and gives hands-on practical experience of setting up and maintaining a variety of PKI solutions. Detailed knowledge of issues surrounding PKI helps to put recent attacks which have appeared in the news headlines into context and enable valid decisions to be made about their relevance to your organization. Throughout the whole course, participants will gain in-depth knowledge on the following topics:

• Legal aspects of a PKI
• Elements of a PKI
• PKI management
• Trust in a digital world
• Digital signature implementation
• Trust models

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Be introduced to the theoretical aspects of the foundations and benefits of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including different types of encryption, digital signatures, digital certificates and Certificate Authorities
• Have hands on experience of implementing and using PKI solutions with a variety of applications
• Gain an understanding of the concepts of evaluating and selecting PKI technologies

Who Should Attend?

IT Engineers, IT Professionals, IT Directors, Engineers, IT Project Managers, IT Auditors, IT Compliance Managers, IT Coordinators, IT Support Managers, IT Officers, IT Support Specialists, IT System Administration, Technical Support Professionals, Chief Information Officers, Chief Risk Officers, Information Assurance Officers, Program Managers, Network Systems Analysts, Government Program Managers, R&D Project Managers, Software and System Developers, Chief Security Officers, Security Specialists, Chief Information Security Officers, Directors of Security, Security Architects, Security Operation Center Managers, Security Consultants, Security Managers, Security Auditors, Security Directors, Systems Administrators, Incident Response Analysts, Business Owners, Security Analysts, Security Systems Engineer, Network Architect, Operations Managers, Risk Management Professionals, Network Administration Professionals, Application Developers, Application Support Analysts, Application Engineers, Associate Developers, Technology Officers, Information Officers, Help Desk Specialist, Help Desk Technician, Database Administrators, Network Architects, Network Engineers, Network System Administrators, System Analysts, System Architects, System Designers, Anyone involved in Public Key Infrastructure, PKI decision-making, implementing and securing e-commerce and other Internet applications, including CIOs, Chief Security Officers, MIS Directors, Security Managers and Internal Auditors

Course Outline:

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

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