Book Recommendation – Hacking the Hacker (Roger Grimes)
Book Recommendation A good friend of mine I met while at Microsoft just had one of his books released. Roger is a Security Columnist for InfoWorld and is a pretty dang sharp guy. His new book, Hacking the Hacker has some good information in many different areas confronting modern cybersecurity specialists. Of particular interest to […]
PKI Solutions Announces Training Scholarships for PDX Cyber Camp 2017
I am pleased to announce that in partnership with the PDX Cyber Camp, PKI Solutions has created a scholarship for 3 young students attending the PDX Cyber Camp to attend one of my PKI In-Depth training classes this year. This will be a great way to offer these students an exposure to PKI and all of […]
What Your Browser Doesn’t Tell You Can Hurt You – Revocation and Internet Explorer
One of the topics I have been using as an example of revocation checking behavior in my PKI In-Depth class is the interesting case of Internet Explorer (IE) and its revocation behavior. Let’s take a moment and have you think about your assumption of how IE is behaving when you go to a HTTPS (SSL/TLS) website. The […]
Windows Server 2016 – What’s New with ADCS
Well, here it is – the concise list of updates and changes to Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) for Windows Server 2016. I will go ahead and tell you now that there aren’t any new earth shattering features. Consider this an incremental set of improvements to ADCS. Remember that we still have things like Elliptical Curve […]
2017 PKI Training Schedule Now Live – Register Today!
It’s here, the 2017 PKI Training schedule is now live and accepting registrations. There are three In-Depth classes and two Advanced PKI classes split between the US and Europe. Be sure to check out the schedule and register early as classes usually sellout in advance. San Jose CA (Feb 7-9) – Introduction to PKI, Certificates and […]
Leveraging Smart Card Beyond Logons
While working with a customer recently, an interesting need came up that required me to rummage through my treasure-trove of random PKI and certificate knowledge. This was apparently so well hidden, I had to reach out to an old friend still at Microsoft to remind me what the heck it’s called! One of the things […]
CertAccord – The Genesis of a Simple Enrollment Solution for Linux
It comes as no surprise to anyone working with Microsoft products that the support and inclusion of operating systems other than Windows is often a second thought – if best. No where is this more prevalent than with Certificate Services – one of the most common questions during the design and deployment is “Well Mark, […]
Announcing Joint Venture and Beta of CertAccord Enterprise
I am pleased to announce that a joint venture I helped start (Revocent Inc) is now beta testing CertAccord Enterprise which extends Microsoft Enterprise Certificate Authorities (CA) to Linux, Mac, and UNIX. It allows fully automated life-cycle management of X.509 certificates on Linux using Microsoft CAs. It’s simple, cost effective and will greatly reduce labor […]