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Subject: FREE LIVE WEBINAR: Building a Common PKI Infrastructure through
a collaborative approach
Limited (FREE) Registration Now Open for a Live Webinar
Title: A Simplistic Practical Approach: Building a Common PKI
Infrastructure through a collaborative approach
Speaker: Imran Mirza
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2007
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PKI
Here is a simple definition of PKI:
Public Key Infrastructure is the combination of software, hardware,
personnel and procedures that enables enterprises to protect the
security of their communications and business transactions on the
Internet through the generation and management of keys and certificates.
A PKI aims to meet the requirements of data confidentiality,
authentication, access control, non repudiation, and data integrity.
Another way to explain this is that PKI - (public key infrastructure)
enables users of a basically unsecured public network such as the
Internet to securely and privately exchange data and money through the
use of a public and a private cryptographic key pair that is obtained
and shared through a trusted authority. The public key infrastructure
provides for a digital certificate that can identify an individual or an
organization and directory services that can store and, when necessary,
revoke the certificates. Although the components of a PKI are generally
understood, a number of different vendor approaches and services are
emerging. Meanwhile, an Internet standard for PKI is being worked on.
By the way, a digital certificate is simply: a "credit card" that
establishes your credentials when doing business or other transactions
on the Web. It is issued by a certification authority (CA). It contains
your name, a serial number, expiration dates, a copy of the certificate
holder's public key (used for encrypting messages and digital
signatures), and the digital signature of the certificate-issuing
authority so that a recipient can verify that the certificate is real.)
Event Background
With the increasing convergence of Information Technology and the scope
and breadth of national challenges, there is a growing recognition and a
need to work in an horizontal manner across the Government as a whole.
This presentation describes what Secure Channel is, what were some of
the critical success factors, the challenges in building a common PKI
that respects the privacy and security policies and legislation. The
imperativeness of horizontality in delivering an e-government project
will be discussed.
The dilemma for many government departments and agencies is that,
although the policy and the business case to work horizontally in
collaboration with other departments are very strong, the current
management and accountability structures are still vertical. In order
to create a successful collaborative environment, it is critical that
impediments to horizontal collaboration on IT/IM projects be identified
and removed. This presentation will use the major crown project Secure
Channel - a common infrastructure horizontal initiative to outline some
of these barriers, and outline the lessons learned in implementing this
project in a collaborative manner. The presentation will touch on the
key elements of creating public-private partnership framework,
principles of collaboration, and examine the "cultural" aspects in
advancing the collaborative agenda and the willingness to cooperate
horizontally.
Secure Channel is a portfolio of services that forms the foundation of
the Government of Canada's (GC) Government On-line (GOL) initiative.
Secure Channel's primary goals are to provide citizens and businesses
with secure, private and high-speed access to all federal government's
on-line services, and to provide an environment that enables and
encourages departments to integrate with federated common services.
For the GC, Secure Channel is the common infrastructure that provides
secure and reliable network services for all federal departments. It
also offers additional services for security, registration and
authentication that enable departments to meet their 2005 GOL goals and
deliver the most commonly used services on-line. It is the critical link
between government programs and Canadians. Without the common
infrastructure and services provided by Secure Channel, and the
assurances it provides with respect to security and privacy, Government
On-Line's Service Vision of client-centric, cross-government service
anytime, anywhere cannot be realized.
About the Presenter
Imran Mirza is the Senior Director of Common Infrastructure Services &
Secure Channel, responsible for providing professional, strategic
leadership in the development and implementation of e-Government
strategies and initiatives, approaches, frameworks and processes for
sound telecommunication and information management architectures and
infrastructures for the federal government and for overseeing and
providing technical advisory services for the design, development
implementation of public key infrastructure systems to ensure secure
channel communications between Canadian public and federal government
departments and agencies.
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