PKI Objectives

Provide information and analysis to enable a selection of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) strategy and begin implementation of a PKI.

Specific Results

• Analysis of alternative PKI approaches
• Strategic advantages and disadvantages
• Industry best practices

Analysis of specific vendor PKI offerings

• Strategic advantages and disadvantages
• Support of specific features of interest

Deliverables

• PKI Requirements and Evaluation Criteria
• Mandatory criteria
• Desirable criteria
• Reference accounts

Public Key Infrastructure Strategy and Product Analysis Report (formal report, formal presentation deliverable)

• Overview of PKI requirements
• Mandatory criteria
• Desirable criteria

PKI component model (analysis of alternatives, best practices)

• Components (certificate authority, certificate repository, etc.)
• Process map
• Standards / APIs
• PKI management tools
• Policies / procedures

PKI product analysis

• Overview of product offerings
• Mapping of products to PKI component model
• Comparison matrix evaluating products against mandatory and desirable criteria

Recommendations

• Strategic direction
• Buy / build trade-off factors
• Open / proprietary trade-off factors
• Solution / product maturity factors
• Refinements to implementation strategy for student registration project
• Next steps
• Vendor literature
• PKI references