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Authentication: Certificates

In this lab, you’ll practice creating and managing certificates. When you’re finished, you’ll have created multiple SSL certificates that allow for connection to a web server via https.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
1h 0m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Generating Your First Self-Signed SSL Certificate in Linux

    In this lab you will be learning how to create and manage SSL certificates for the purpose of securing connections to a web server. To begin you will start by generating the simplest type of SSL certificate, a self-signed certificate, and use it to enable https connections on a Linux Machine

  3. Challenge

    Creating Your Own Certificate Authority on Windows

    In this challenge, you will learn how to create a Certificate Authority, which is a server that can issue certificates to other machines.

  4. Challenge

    Configuring Your CA to Issue Certificates

    In this challenge students will enable https on their CA using IIS configuration to allow other servers to request certificates

  5. Challenge

    Issuing and Revoking Certificates

    In this challenge you learn how to issue a certificate via a CA and then revoke that certificate from the CA console

  6. Challenge

    Final Challenge

    Acting as a web developer deploying your first application, try exporting the certificate that you created and deploying it to your apache server.

About the author

Shimon Brathwaite is a seven-year cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Identity and Access Management and Consulting.

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