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April 18, 2005
Tech Ed Session Update
Hi all,
There has been a slight change in my smart card session for Tech Ed. I cannot get into specifics, but suffice it to say that the Microsoft Smart Card tools will not be ready in time for discussion at the Orlando Tech Ed. Here is the updated session description:
Many companies are exploring the deployment of smart cards to increase authentication strength in their networks. This session discusses the design issues you must address when designing your smart card deployment. Not only does a successful smart card deployment require policies and procedures to ensure success, the deployment must also have tools to assist in the deployment and management of the smart cards. The session will look at how Microsoft clients have deployed smart cards in their networks; identify the applications that work for smart cards, and where you still cannot use smart cards. Finally, the session will demonstrate a third party registration authority that allows key recovery for encryption certificates stored on smart cards and helps ensure that identity is proven before issuing a certificate to the certificate requester.
The session will include some great demonstrations of a 3rd party registration authority that I have deployed at my customers called Alacris idNexus. The demonstrations will include defining a workflow for smart card enrollment and showing how the registration authority can be configured to implement self recovery. The recovery will also demonstrate how to recover encryption certificates to a smart card. This is great for customers that are planning on deploying S/MIME certificates for secure email on smart cards and are concerned about losing access to encrypted email if a smart card is lost or damaged!
Brian
Posted by at April 18, 2005 07:42 PM