SSL/TLS Operations
What you'll learn
- Understand how the SSL/TLS certificate system works.
- Procure, install, operate on SSL/TLS certificates following best practices.
- Troubleshoot SSL/TLS issues and common vulnerabilities
- Evolution of SSL/TLS and market share and position of various versions
- TLS 1.3 and its properties.
- Adapt and implement upcoming technology changes in SSL/TLS domain.
Requirements
- Should be an internet user.
Description
This course is a deep dive into concepts, management and operations of SSL/TLS certificate system. It covers practical demonstrations of various operations on certificates. A review on various SSL/TLS versions and a deep dive into TLS 1.3 and its properties are the most recent part of the course. We also discuss some of the advanced topics like certificate transparency, Let's Encrypt and ACME as well.
While this course gives you everything about the SSL/TLS system, it has targeted contents for the website administrators as well. The reasoning and philosophy behind the driving principles give you enough knowledge to take architectural decisions as well as understand and troubleshoot various technical issues.
Who this course is for:
- Internet users who are keen to know how SSL is protecting the web. SREs, Developers and DevOps who manage or deal with SSL/TLS for production web sites.
Instructor
In the Software Engineering and Operations world for about 18 years. Played different roles in different organizations in the internet domain. Site reliability engineering, DevOps, Information security specialist, Cloud architect etc.. I am a CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), AWS Solution Architect and RedHat Certified Engineer. I have a special interest in Internet Security domains. I take organization wide trainings on various security topics including SSL, Key management, Application security best practices etc.