Module 1: Overview of Public Key Infrastructure

This module explains the basic concepts of a public key infrastructure (PKI) and its components. It also provides an overview of the topics that will be explained in-depth in the course.

Lessons

• Introduction to PKI
• Introduction to Cryptography
• Certificates and Certification Authorities

Module 2: Designing a Certification Authority Hierarchy

This module introduces students to designing a CA hierarchy. It explains the major tasks that are involved, including identifying business and legal requirements and planning a Certification Authority (CA) hierarchy structure.

Lessons

• Identifying CA Hierarchy Design Requirements
• Common CA Hierarchy Designs
• Documenting Legal Requirements
• Analyzing Design Requirements
• Designing a CA Hierarchy Structure

Lab: Designing a CA Hierarchy

• Identifying Applications and Certificate Holders
• Identifying Technical and Business Requirements
• Designing a CA Hierarchy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Creating a Certification Authority Hierarchy

This module explains how to create a CA hierarchy based on a CA hierarchy design. Students also learn how to install Certificate Services, validate a certificate, and publish a certificate revocation list (CRL) and an Authority Information Access (AIA).

Lessons

• Creating an Offline CA
• Validating Certificates
• Planning CRL Publication
• Installing a Subordinate CA

Lab: Installing an Offline CA

• Configuring CAPolicy.inf for installing the Offline Root CA
• Installing the Offline Root CA

Lab: Publishing CRLs and AIAs

• Defining CRL and AIA Publication Settings
• Publishing the CRL and AIA Information
• Adding the Web Server to Local Intranet Sites

Lab: Implementing a Subordinate Enterprise CA

• Installing the Subordinate Enterprise CA
• Validating the PKI Health of your CA Hierarchy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 4: Managing a Public Key Infrastructure

This module explains how to manage a PKI by managing certificates and CAs. Students also learn how to recover a PKI in the event of a failure.

Lessons

• Introduction to PKI Management
• Managing Certificates
• Managing Certification Authorities
• Planning for Disaster Recovery

Lab: Enabling Role Separation

• Defining CA Administrators and Certificate Managers
• Restricting Certificate Managers
• Generating Certificate Requests
• Testing CA Administrator Tasks
• Testing Certificate Manager Tasks
• Enabling Certificate Services Auditing

Lab: Backing Up and Restoring a Certification Authority

• Determining Backup Privileges
• Backing Up Certificate Services
• Removing the CA's Private Key from the CA Certificate Store
• Restoring the System State Backup

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 5: Configuring Certificate Templates

This module introduces students to certificate templates and how to design them. Students also learn about creating, publishing, and changing certificate templates.

Lessons

• Introduction to Certificate Templates
• Designing and Creating a Certificate Template
• Publishing a Certificate Template
• Managing Changes in a Certificate Template

Lab: Delegating Certificate Template Management

• Delegating Certificate Template Administration Permissions

Lab: Designing a Certificate Template

• Reviewing an Existing Certificate Template
• Designing the Custom Code Signing Certificate Template

Lab: Configuring Certificate Templates

• Creating a Certificate Template
• Publishing a Certificate Template
• Enrolling the Certificate Template
• Superceding a Certificate Template

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 6: Configuring Certificate Enrollment

In this module, students learn about the various methods of enrolling certificates. Students can either process the certificate requests manually or automatically, depending upon the approval requirement from the certificate manager.

Lessons

• Introduction to Certificate Enrollment
• Enrolling Certificates Manually
• Autoenrolling Certificates

Lab: Enrolling Certificates

• Choosing an Enrollment Method
• Enrolling Computer Certificates by Using the Certificate Enrollment Wizard
• Creating a User Certificate Template that Enables Autoenrollment
• Deploying the Certificates by Using Autoenrollment

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 7: Configuring Key Archival and Recovery

This module describes the importance of creating a strategy for data and key recovery and explains the key archival and recovery process. Students also learn how Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 enhance data protection and data recovery.

Lessons

• Introduction to Key Archival and Recovery
• Implementing Manual Key Archival and Recovery
• Implementing Automatic Key Archival and Recovery

Lab: Configuring Key Recovery

• Publishing the Key Recovery Agent Certificate Template
• Enrolling the Key Recovery Agent Certificates
• Implementing Key Recovery on an Enterprise CA
• Creating an Archive-enabled Certificate Template
• Acquiring an ArchiveEFS Certificate
• Performing Key Recovery

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 8: Configuring Trust Between Organizations

Students learn how to extend an organization's PKI trust hierarchy to other organizations. By extending the trust hierarchy, an organization's certificates can be used and trusted across organizations for purposes like secure e-mail messages, client authentication, and server authentication.

Lessons

• Introduction to Advanced PKI Hierarchies
• Qualified Subordination Concepts
• Configuring Constraints in a Policy.inf File
• Implementing Qualified Subordination

Lab: Implementing a Bridge CA

• Creating a Qualified Subordination Signing Certificate Template
• Configuring a Policy.inf File
• Requesting a Qualified Subordination Signing Certificate
• Generating a Cross Certification Authority Certificate for the Bridge CA
• Modifying the Policy.inf File on the Bridge CA
• Creating the Cross Certification Authority Certificate
• Publishing the Bridge CA Cross Certification Authority Certificates
• Issuing Certificates that Meet Qualified Subordination Constraints

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 9: Deploying Smart Cards

In this module, students learn how smart cards provide secure storage for data and also support authentication of users. Students also learn how to configure and deploy smart cards in a Windows Server 2003 PKI environment.

Lessons

• Introduction to Smart Cards
• Enrolling Smart Card Certificates
• Deploying Smart Cards

Lab: Deploying Smart Cards

• Modifying and Publishing the Enrollment Agent Certificate Template
• Acquiring the Enrollment Agent Certificates
• Creating a Custom Smart Card Certificate
• Enabling the Downloading of Unsafe Microsoft ActiveX Controls
• Performing Smart Card Enrollment Agent Requests
• Configuring a Certificate to Require a Smart Card Signature during Autoenrollment
• Signing an Autoenrollment Certificate Request with a Smart Card
• Planning for Re-enrollment

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 10: Securing Web Traffic by Using SSL

This module explains how to secure a Web environment by implementing SSL security and certificate-based authentication for Web applications.

Lessons

• Introduction to SSL Security
• Enabling SSL on a Web Server
• Implementing Certificate-based Authentication

Lab: Deploying SSL Encryption at a Web Server

• Enabling SSL Encryption in IIS
• Securing the Security Virtual Folder
• Enabling Certificate Mapping in Active Directory
• Enabling Certificate Mapping in IIS

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 11: Configuring E-mail Security

In this module, students learn how to implement secure e-mail messages in an Exchange 2003 environment.

Lessons

• Introduction to E-mail Security
• Configuring Secure E-mail Messages
• Recovering E-mail Private Keys
• Migrating a KMS Database to a CA Running Windows Server 2003

Lab: Securing E-mail Messages in Exchange Server 2003

• Creating Exchange Server 2003 Mailboxes
• Creating and Publishing S/MIME Certificate Templates
• Configuring Outlook 2002
• Sending Secure E-mail Between Organizations

After completing this module, students will be able to: