English | 2022 | PDF | 32 MB | 462 Pages
Lawrence E. Hughes, 978-1-4842-7486-6, 978-1-4842-7488-0, 1484274881, 978-1484274880, 9781484274880, 1484274857, 978-1484274859, 9781484274859, B09VYTRH87
In order to deploy and use Microsoft
Certificate Services, you need to understand the fundamentals of
cryptography, digital signatures, encryption, TLS, and S/MIME. It is
also important to understand the concepts behind public key
infrastructure (PKI). This book teaches you all the required background
knowledge you need. Then it takes you deeper, step by step, teaching you
how to deploy Certificate Services and configure it to issue various
digital certificate types, complete with examples of using these
certificates with IIS, Outlook, and Windows.
Microsoft-based
networks―on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based networks―are used in
companies of all sizes. Within them, there are many applications of
digital certificates that can be created and managed by Microsoft
Certificate Services. As security is more important than ever, and
cryptography and PKI are fundamental to so many of these defenses,
understanding Microsoft Certificate Services is becoming an increasingly
more desirable skill.
Most IT
workers don’t realize the many uses and purposes of Certificate
Services, especially within a corporate or government agency network,
and how tightly integrated they are with the Microsoft Windows Domain
style of networks and Active Directory (on-premises or cloud-based,
including Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Services). This book will teach
you the gamut.
You will appreciate
the learning approach presented in the book, beginning with the basics
(cryptographic primitives such as encryption and message digests),
getting into combinations of primitives to accomplish specific things
(such as digital signatures and envelopes), and then trying real-word
systems based on digital certificates and PKI (such as TLS, S/MIME
secure email, cryptographic authentication, and more). The book wraps it
all up and teaches you how to deploy Certificate Services and issue the
various types of certificates, including how they are used.
What You Will Learn
- Understand basic cryptography (symmetric and asymmetric key encryption, message digests, and digital signatures and envelopes)
- Know how TLS, S/MIME, and cryptographic authentication work
- Discover
applications of cryptography related to secure servers with TLS and
cryptographic (passwordless) authentication to online services including
Windows and secure email
- Get to
know the common types of digital certificates, how to create and manage
them, and examples of their use with IIS, Outlook, etc.
Who This Book Is For
Microsoft
system and network engineers, security engineers, and CISOs. Readers
should have familiarity with Windows Server 2019 (or more recent) and
Active Directory.
