UPKI - Public Key Infrastructure

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design, deploy, and manage a public key infrastructure (PKI) to support applications that require distributed security. Students get hands-on experience implementing solutions to secure PKI-enabled applications and services, such as SSL, file encryption, script signing. The Active Directory Certificate Services role in Windows Server is used to deploy a complete PKI infrastructure in the organization. Topics: Overview of Public Key Infrastructure, Creating a Certification Authority Hierarchy, Managing a Public Key Infrastructure, Certificate Templates, Certificate Enrollment, Key Archival and Recovery, PKI and Applications, PKI Trust Between Organizations.