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…
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I am pleased to announce that enrollment and registration for the In-Depth and the PKI Advanced class is now available directly on our website. You can select the course, location and pay for your enrollment right here. Look for the Enroll for a Class menu under the Training menu item. You can also directly link…
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We’re excited to announce our 2016 Global PKI Training Schedule for Open Enrollment classes. We are also announcing the all new Advanced PKI Training class, a hands-on lab based learning environment. The Advanced course builds on the knowledge and skills of the PKI In-Depth class and offers students the ability to get a deeper knowledge…
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July 2015 The PKI CryptoGram #2 PKI Technology Corner Over the years I have been advocating to customers that core components in a PKI need to be both physically and logically secure. Historically this was easy to address by placing the servers, Hardware Security Modules (HSM), keyboard, monitor and all…
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May 2015 The PKI CryptoGram #1 First Edition! Welcome to the first edition of the new monthly PKI CryptoGram. We started this monthly newsletter to keep you informed about all things PKI and Active Directory Certificate Services. Each month we will highlight updates to our industry leading ADCS Hotfixes and Known Issues List, news and…
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I am very pleased to announce that the whitepaper I have been working on for several months with Microsoft has been released. The Whitepaper is titled “Securing and Hardening Network Device Enrollment Service for Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager” and provides guidance not only for Microsoft NDES deployments, but also Microsoft Intune deployments…
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Yes, it’s a popular topic and comes up almost every day! Brian and I are still working on the follow up to the MS Press released Windows Server 2008 PKI book. The plan was initially to target Windows Server 2012 R2 as the new OS release, but as we can all plainly see, that is…
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I received notification recently that PKI Solutions Inc. is now a certified Oregon Tier-1 Emerging Small Business (Certificate #9320). This program is for Oregon small businesses seeking contracting opportunities for state, county and city government and special jurisdiction (e.g., hospitals and universities) contracting opportunities. More details are on the program website at http://www.oregon4biz.com/How-We-Can-Help/OMWESB/ESB/.
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Over the years, I’ve worked with customers as they were designing and deploying a PKI. A common step for every project was to review and assess business requirements for certificates. The goal was to determine what types of certificates would be needed in the environment. This in turns ultimately drives the design, security and operation…
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