Get to grips with the deployment and configuration of Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS), aka public key infrastructure (PKI), on Windows Servers
Key Features
- Understand the configuration of certification services in the Microsoft environment
- Become familiar with encryption and decryption algorithms
- Discover how cryptographic protocols secure communication over a network
Book Description
This video course will show you find out how Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) works on websites and help you understand the significance of digital certificates in securing communication between two entities such as a client and a web server. You'll also gain the knowledge and skills needed to deploy and manage two-tier PKI on Windows Servers to support applications that require certificate-based security.
The video course begins with an introduction to PKI, taking you through the components and uses of PKI and digital certificates. Next, you'll find out how cryptography secures the transmission of online data by using encryption methods and algorithms. Moving ahead, you'll delve into interesting activities to learn about certification authority (CA), certificate requests, and certificate services. You'll also learn how to configure Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES), Certificate Enrollment Service (CES), and Certificate Enrollment Policy (CEP). The course ends with a bonus topic that introduces you to the process of migrating hashing algorithms from SHA1 to SHA2 on Windows Server 2016.
By the end of this course, you'll have developed the skills needed to deploy and configure PKI on Windows Servers.
All the supporting files for this course are available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Cryptography-Learn-Public-Key-Infrastructure-from-Scratch
What you will learn
- Install, configure, and manage two-tier PKI on Windows Server 2012 R2
- Understand how encryption and decryption work together
- Find out how SSL certificates are used to secure websites
- Configure CDP/CIA extensions and OCSP servers
- Discover how standalone machines request certificates using NDES and CEP/CES
- Migrate hashing algorithms from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256) on two-tier PKI
Who this book is for
This video course is for beginners, IT professionals, and cybersecurity experts who want to deploy and manage PKI on Windows Servers. A basic understanding of Windows Servers and networking?is recommended to get started with this course.
