Web Seminars Contributed by EDUCAUSE and PKI

Peter Alterman will present an overview of the federal government's electronic identity management initiatives, focusing on eGovernment and eCommerce. He will touch on the government's electronic security initiatives as they interact with the eGov services efforts and suggest how these two threads will impact identity management for colleges and universities in the near future.

This session provides a practical example of how the University of Wisconsin–Madison researched various PKI system models and deployed a managed solution to issue digital certificates to encrypt and digitally sign e-mail and other sensitive information, and authenticate online identities.

Mark Franklin will explore how PKI addresses many of higher education's increasingly urgent needs for cyber security, presenting his vision for using it to enable strong and universal digital authentication, signing, and encryption applications in higher education. He will describe Dartmouth University's deployment as an example of PKI at work.