[wsfii-discuss] FREE LIVE WEBINAR: Building a Common PKI Infrastructure through a collaborative approach

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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

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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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