Tag: Security

MQ Technical Conference.  September 2015.  Powerpoint presentation.
“IBM MQ – SSL/TLS Certificate Management“  (55 slides).

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This presentation provides an overview of the lifecycle of both Personal and Signer x.509 certificates and then provides detailed examples of both Keystore and Certificate processing.  The entire Certificate lifecycle, from request to deployment, is covered and illustrated using screenshots from the IBM iKeyMan tool.  Finally, the tools available for Certificate management are identified.

By the end of the presentation, the viewer should have a basic understanding of the data content and Signing chain of an x.509 certificate as well as the lifecycle for a Certificate.  The viewer should be prepared to begin managing x.509 certificates in order to support MQ SSL/TLS channel processing.

MQ Technical Conference.  September 2014.  Powerpoint presentation.
“IBM MQ – SSL & TLS – A User Perspective“  (58 slides).

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The presentation provides an overview of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS) processing and the lifecycle of x.509 certificates within these protocols.  The presentation covers the following points:

• Business challenge that SSL/TLS address
• SSL/TLS History (what it was and was not designed for)
• Overview of x.509 certificate contents
• The x.509 certificate management lifecycle
• The certificate lifecycle, illustrated using the IBM iKeyMan tool

By the end of the presentation, the viewer should have a conceptual understanding of both SSL/TLS encryption across MQ channels as well as the lifecycle and management of the certificates that support that encryption.