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Published inJun 2021
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Lisa Bock
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Lisa Bock

Lisa Bock is an experienced author with a demonstrated history of working in the e-learning industry. She is a security ambassador with a broad range of IT skills and knowledge, including on Cisco Security, CyberOps, Wireshark, biometrics, ethical hacking, and IoT. Lisa is an author for LinkedIn Learning and an award-winning speaker who has presented at several national conferences. She holds an MS in computer information systems/information assurance from UMGC. Lisa was an associate professor in the IT department at Pennsylvania College of Technology (Williamsport, PA) from 2003 until her retirement in 2020. She is involved with various volunteer activities, and she and her husband Mike enjoy bike riding, watching movies, and traveling.
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Describing a PKI framework

If you see a lock by the web address when making a transaction on the internet, as shown in the following screenshot, you can be confident the site is secure:

Figure 8.1 – The Packt Publishing website showing a lock to indicate a secure site

Figure 8.1 – The Packt Publishing website showing a lock to indicate a secure site

The lock represents trust, which means that when exchanging data with the website, your data is secure. A PKI verifies the identities of both parties so that they can encrypt and securely exchange information.

This trust is possible because of a PKI—a framework used to generate, manage, and distribute digital certificates.

A PKI framework helps to ensure data confidentiality and integrity and is essential for several applications, such as securing email and encrypting data transactions.

In this section, we'll see how a PKI ensures trust and allows us to securely exchange keys during a data transaction, along with some of the different components of a PKI. In...

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Lisa Bock is an experienced author with a demonstrated history of working in the e-learning industry. She is a security ambassador with a broad range of IT skills and knowledge, including on Cisco Security, CyberOps, Wireshark, biometrics, ethical hacking, and IoT. Lisa is an author for LinkedIn Learning and an award-winning speaker who has presented at several national conferences. She holds an MS in computer information systems/information assurance from UMGC. Lisa was an associate professor in the IT department at Pennsylvania College of Technology (Williamsport, PA) from 2003 until her retirement in 2020. She is involved with various volunteer activities, and she and her husband Mike enjoy bike riding, watching movies, and traveling.
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