Understanding PKI: Concepts, Standards, and Deployment Considerations, Second Edition

Foreword

Public-Key Infrastructures (PKIs) are becoming a central part of enterprise security architectures. A PKI provides a focal point for many aspects of security management, as well as serving as an enabler for a growing number of standard and custom security applications. Most standard protocols for secure e-mail, Web access, virtual private networks, and single sign-on user authentication systems make use of public-key certificates and therefore require some form of PKI. Given the rapid evolution of PKIs in many enterprises, Understanding PKI is a very valuable book for any corporate IT manager, CIO, system security administration, or application protocol developer.

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