- Lab
- Security
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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Table of Contents
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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!
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
What's a lab?
Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.
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Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
Did you know?
On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.