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June 03, 2005
Tech Ed in Orlando - Update on Sessions
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the delays in posting the last month, it has been hectic!
I just want to update everyone on my break-out and cabana sessions at Tech Ed.
Break-out Sessions
I am delivering one break-out session, SEC: 400 Managing a Smart Card Deployment at Tech Ed on Wednesday June8, 2005 from 3:45 - 5:00 PM in S200D. This session will discuss managing and planning a smart card deployment for your organization and will include details on current engagements that I am performing for MCS that deal with smart card deployments. If you are looking for additional documentation for your smart card deployment, take a look at these two excellent resources:
- FIPS PUB 201: Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors (http://www.csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips201/FIPS-201-022505.pdf). This document's goal is to "improve the identification and authentication of Federal employees and contractors for access to Federal facilities and information systems". It provides some great examples of how to validate the identity of a smart card requester before issuing a smart card to that person.
- X.509 Certificate Policy for the Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA) (http://www.cio.gov/fpkipa/documents/fbca_cp_09-10-02.pdf). This document is a great resource for guidelines for deploying a Certification Authority that will be trusted by external resources. When looking for smart card resources within the documentation, focus on the discussions on the five assurance levels: rudimentary, basic, medium, high, and test. The document provides descriptions of the types of transactions relevant to each assurance level, the documentation required to validate a requester's identity, and what is required at certificate renewal.
Cabana Sessions
Cabana sessions are probably my favorite part of Tech Ed, as the content is driven by you, the attendees. A Cabana session takes place in a small section of the convention hall, where speakers and experts can field question on the subject of the Cabana from the audience. At last year's show, Paul Adare (www.identit.ca/blogs/paul), extensively used the white board to answers the questions from the audience. I do not think anyone left disappointed. At this year's show, I will be taking part in two Cabana sessions:
- Q&A: PKI Deployment.
This session takes place in Track Cabana 16 on Tuesday June 6th, 2005 from 3:15 to 4:30 pm
This session will be co-hosted by David Cross, Microsoft's PKI Group Program Manager and myself. David and I have written several white papers together and he was a great source of information and assistance for my PKI book "Microsoft® Windows Server? 2003 PKI and Certificate Security" (http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6745.asp#AboutTheBook). David was the major contributor (say 90%) from the Microsoft PKI Team!
- Q&A: Smart card Deployment.
This session takes place in Track Cabana 16 on Thursday June 8th, 2005 from 1:30 to 2:45 pm
This session will be co- hosted by Paul Adare, IdentIT Inc.'s CTO and myself. Paul and I have been involved in several smart card deployments over the last year and have lots of behind-the-scenes information for the attendees of the session.
See you at the show!
Brian
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Posted by at June 3, 2005 07:04 AM