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From: FLUX Announcements (meetings, events, etc.) <flux-announce@flux.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Subject: [Flux-announce] June 11 Meeting: User Credentialing on the Internet
To: flux-announce@flux.org
TOPIC: User Credentialing on the Internet
PRESENTER: Bill Tabor, Long-time FLUX member and Linux Guru!
DATE: Thursday June 11, 2009
TIME: 6:30pm Refreshments & Networking; Presentation begins 7:00pm
PLACE: Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (see http://flux.org for details)
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has created the new Office of Cybersecurity Coordinator and laid out the administration’s plans for bolstering cybersecurity.
Where does this lead us?
The government is pushing us to use PKI (Public/Private Key Infrastructure). Credentials are already on CAC and TWIC cards. The Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems (FiXs) card is coming.
Structure has already been put in place. To deal with various Federal entities today, via email or web, you must have and ECA (External Certificate Authority) certificate.
This talk will explain:
1) How PKI works
2) How to set up a secure web server
A) Server credentials and crl
B) Client credentials
3) How to use your client certificate to sign documents and email
4) Using LDAP to store user credentials
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
William Tabor - Vice President of Research and Development, Protexx, Inc.
Mr. Tabor leads Protexx's product development team with the strength and perspective of a proven professional, as someone who has been directly involved with many of the most significant developments in information technology over the past 30 years. He has contributed to the coding that formed the foundation of the Internet, has championed the development and dissemination of open source operating systems, and has created database software so effective that elements of it remain inside virtually every computer operating today.Now, as Vice President of Research and Development, Mr. Tabor is able to put this breadth of expertise toward a singular goal: the development of secure, leading-edge information solutions for today's growing enterprises. Mr. Tabor is well versed in a broad variety of hardware platforms and operating systems, is comfortable working in real-time production environments, and specializes in the adaptation of new technologies to eliminate long-standing problems.
Mr. Tabor has completed a BSIE in Systems Analysis from the University of Miami and Engineering coursework at Carnegie-Mellon University, as well as Masters-level coursework at Nova University. He is a Protege of C. Gordon Bell, noted developer of early commercial computing systems, and Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, pioneering computer programmer.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR! See you Thursday June 11 at Nova Southeastern University!
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