Case Study 2: Public Key Infrastructure
Due Week 6 and worth 60 points
Suppose you are the Information Security Director at a small software company. The organization currently utilizes a Microsoft Server 2012 Active Directory domain administered by your information security team. Mostly software developers and a relatively small number of administrative personnel comprise the remainder of the organization. You have convinced business unit leaders that it would be in the best interest of the company to use a public key infrastructure (PKI) in order to provide a framework that fosters confidentiality integrity authentication and nonrepudiation. Email clients virtual private network (VPN) products Web server components and domain controllers would utilize digital certificates issued by the certificate authority (CA). Additionally the company would use digital certificates to sign software developed by the company in order to demonstrate software authenticity to the customer.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
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