August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
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Why Use PKI with Windows 2000?
Now that I've discussed some of the key features of the Microsoft Windows 2000 PKI, look at some of the applications that can benefit from the use of the PKI and why.
Web Server Security
Face it, one of the areas of the Internet suffering from the biggest security issues today are Web servers. Not a day passes that you can't find an online news article about a major Web site being hacked. As e-commerce continues to accelerate the growth of commerce on the Internet, these issues will grow at an exponential pace. Some areas in which the Windows 2000 PKI can benefit Web security include the following:
Server authentication. With e-commerce (or any other secure Web application), it is critical that clients be able to ...