Both features are key for security and B2B e-commerce, particularly as Microsoft works to integrate better extranet and cross-company authentication features in a Windows Server update due out in 2005 ...

Microsoft Corp. officials have agreed to alter the next- generation Windows operating system so that it will accommodate the existing digital certificate being used on Defense Department Common Access ...

The idea came off as a simple one: implement Microsoft's Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and you'll be on your way to a more secure infrastructure. That was the premise of this month's ...

Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a system of processes, technologies, and policies for encrypting and signing data. It plays an essential role in authenticating users, servers, devices, software, ...

When something is core to your business, it often makes sense to keep it in-house — and what could be more central than network security, especially considering that more than 75% of organizations ...

Our internal wireless network requires certificate authentication to connect. We have a Windows PKI deployed, using a tiered CA structure with an Enterprise issuing CA. Up until recently certificate ...

Microsoft's Active Directory PKI component commonly have configuration mistakes that allow attackers to gain account and domain-level privileges. As the core of Windows enterprise networks, Active ...