Certificate Services / PKI Implementation

Microsoft Certificate Services provides a sophisticated and cost-effective method of providing PKI certificates for a wide range of certificate enabled applications within an enterprise network including computer, domain controller, encrypting file system, VPN, network access control, wireless and web server certificates. In addition to core infrastructure certificates, Microsoft Certificate Services also has the ability to issue higher assurance certificates for smart card authentication and digital signing applications through the use of ILM 2007 and underlying technologies such as hardware security modules and smart cards.

In order to properly implement Microsoft Certificate Services and establish your PKI, it is important to plan your deployment in consideration of a number of key questions:

• What is your targeted level of assurance?
• What certificate use-cases will you be implementing?
• What will your approach to certificate management be?
• What are you planning to use the PKI for today and what are your plans for the future?
• How will the establishment of a PKI within your environment affect the rest of your infrastructure including Active Directory?
• Is the scope of your deployment going to be internally focused or will you be supporting applications which require communications with external parties?
• What are the legal and regulatory implications of providing this type of infrastructure?
• Do I need a Certificate Policy and Certificate Practices Statement?

There are many questions that will need to be answered as part of a Microsoft Certificate Services deployment and Avaleris’ service offering is designed to help large organizations answer these questions in accordance with their own requirements. Avaleris can provide advice and guidance on developing your organization’s PKI strategy and approach as well as the technology architecture required to support it.

Our Microsoft PKI Implementation Services include:

• Microsoft Certificate Services and PKI Readiness Assessments;
• PKI Strategy and Approach;
• Microsoft Certificate Services Architecture and Detailed Design;
• Microsoft Certificate Services Pilot Implementation;
• ILM 2007 Architecture, Design and Implementation;
• Certificate Policy and Practices Development;
• Custom PKI application development;
• IT Security Policies and Procedures Development; and
• Microsoft Certificate Services and ILM 2007 Training.

Our service offering utilizes Microsoft’s best practices for PKI implementation and leverages the expertise of our consulting team in performing these deployments for our clients. Our heritage also uniquely qualifies us for projects that require Microsoft Certificate Services and ILM 2007 customization and integration.