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Title: A Simplistic Practical Approach: Building a Common PKI Infrastructure through a collaborative approach
Speaker: Imran Mirza
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2007
Time: 11:00 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT =>Includes Discussion Time <=
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The PKI looks at ways for organizations esp. Non-profits to communicate within their network (we are a non-profit too and provide free education) - it allows for collaboration that is parallel and hierarchical. The speaker will discuss the use of PKI and how it was implemented in a simple situation. Although the speaker is from govt. he realizes the scope of our audience and can only enhance the information as questions are raised. He comes with considerable experience and is looking to help both underdeveloped nations and NGO and non-profits all the same.....via this methodology.
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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