Training

Course Summaries

Entrust Authority™ Security Manager Comprehensive

Course Overview

The Entrust Authority Security Manager Comprehensive course is an in-depth, five-day, hands-on treatment of the Entrust Authority Security Manager (formerly Entrust/Authority). The course begins with an interactive session on business security needs and the overall requirement for planning and policy. The encryption and digital signature processes are discussed, as are the elements of trust and components of an Entrust infrastructure. Students will have an opportunity to perform the planning, policy setting, and administrative tasks associated with the Security Manager. In addition, they will learn how to perform the more advanced tasks, such as bulk operations and cross-certification between multiple Certification Authorities.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate how the processes of encryption and digital signature factor in the solution to an organization's data security requirements.
• Describe the basic architecture of an Entrust infrastructure, including the function of the various applications and processes.
• Perform both the usual and the more advanced tasks related to management of the Security Manager.
• Customize the roles, policy and groups of users in an Entrust solution.

Prerequisites

Experience with Windows 2000 Server

Who Should Attend

This comprehensive hands-on five-day course is intended for technology professionals who will be planning, implementing and managing the Entrust Authority Security Manager.

Course Topics

1. Business Security
2. Building a solution
3. Elements of trust
4. The Entrust infrastructure
5. The Certification Authority
6. The Directory
7. Key management
8. Documenting the Entrust installation
9. Installing the Security Manager
10. The functions of Security Manager Control
11. The default security policy
12. Creating administrative users
13. Creating end users
14. Entrust-Ready applications
15. User lifecycle management
16. User reporting
17. Application workshop
18. Groups, user policies, and roles
19. Interoperability features
20. Bulk operations
21. Roaming Server
22. Cross-certification
23. Advanced user operations
24. Regrouping exercise
25. Creating a hierarchy of CAs
26. Disaster recovery
27. Review

• Appendix A. Customizing certificates
• Appendix B. Customizing the Entrust client software
• Appendix C. Entrust Authority Enrollment Server for VPN
• Appendix D. Entrust Authority Security Manager Proxy

Sign up now