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  • 2005-04-14:

    PKI in the News
    Diffie: Infrastructure a disaster in the making

    Part 2: Diffie, now chief security officer, vice president and a fellow at Sun Microsystems, explains why Windows' spread into critical infrastructure is dangerous and how use of elliptical curve cryptography will grow with the proliferation of smaller, integrated mobile devices.
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    PKI in the News
    Hellman: Authentication at every access point

    Part 1: Hellman, now professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, explains why phishing is one of the biggest threats we face, why strong authentication is needed at every access point and why security add-ons won't do much to ease the threats of cyberspace.
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    2005-03-29:

    RMS in the News
    Patricia Seybold Group Identifies Liquid Machines as Leader in the Enterprise Rights Management Market

    "Liquid Machines' Solutions for Managing Digital Rights on Electronic Desktops: Tracking How Customers and Business Partners are Distributing Content across the Web" (Patricia Seybold Group - March 2005) discusses the suitability of Liquid Machines ERM products to the growing enterprise need for a rights-management solution that can protect their sensitive and high-value documents, prevent information leakage, and eliminate potential violation of compliance regulations. The report identifies many key differentiators of Liquid Machines ERM solutions' including its Policy Droplet? control, technology superiority in the area of policy enforcement and persistence, and strategic partnership with Microsoft® to extend Windows® Rights Management Services.
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    2005-03-27:

    VS and VPC in the News
    Virtual-Server Face-Off

    The year 2004 might very well become known as the year of virtualization. Initially, IT pros recognized the value of virtualization technologies in test and demo environments. However, with the advent of ever more powerful systems coupled with continued improvements in virtual machine (VM) technologies, virtualization has since become a production-level technology that enables server consolidation.
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    IdM in the News
    Microsoft Preps Move on ID Management

    Observers say Microsoft's intent is to centralize some identity services and make it easier to deploy its identity platform by reducing the amount of integration end users must do and giving developers one point where they can tie their applications to the identity platform.
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    PKI in the News
    RSA Security Solutions Adopted for PSP (PlayStation®Portable)

    i-Newswire, 2005-03-25 - RSA Security Inc. ( Nasdaq: RSAS ) announced today that it has licensed RSA BSAFE® Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL ) and public key infrastructure ( PKI ) products to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ( SCEI ), to provide a secure interactive environment for software title developers and publishers creating game titles for its new PSPTM ( PlayStation®Portable ) handheld entertainment system.
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March 28, 2005

Free eBook

Windows IT Library has released a free eBook titled A Guide to Windows Certification and Public Keys. This is a short (72 pages) book that provides a high-level look at Microsoft's Certificate Services.
While this ebook provides an introduction to Certificate Services, it certainly isn't all that useful to someone who is trying to properly deploy an enterprise PKI. If that is what you're looking for, then you should either take Microsoft's Course 2821: Designing and Managing a Windows Public Key Infrastructure and/or pickup a copy of Brian Komar's book Microsoft® Windows Server? 2003 PKI and Certificate Security.
Remember, a PKI is one of those technologies that you can't get "almost correct". :-)

Posted by Paul Adare at March 28, 2005 08:37 AM

Comments

Hi Paul, I´m Rogerio Melo MCT from Brazil. Nice tip about the W2k3 PKI book. I´m already passing it to my students. All the best. Rogerio

Posted by: Rogerio Melo at April 2, 2005 09:05 AM