Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

EDUCAUSE/Dartmouth PKI Deployment Summit, July 25 - 27, Hanover NH

EDUCAUSE and the Dartmouth PKI Lab are sponsoring a nuts-and-bolts meeting 
to dig into practically focused, real-life PKI deployment issues in higher 
education. Join us on the Dartmouth campus in scenic Hanover, New 
Hampshire, to:

   * Benefit from the valuable technical and policy experiences of
     others deploying client-side PKI in higher education.
   * Learn about and influence the implementation of higher education
     inter-institutional PKI trust fabrics (Higher Education Bridge
     Certification Authority and U.S. Higher Education Root).
   * Learn about EDUCAUSE-negotiated PKI vendor deals.
   * Find out how PKI bridges can enable grid resource sharing.
   * Hear about the federal government's far-reaching end-user PKI
     deployment plans.
   * Learn about different Certification Authority options from those
     who have successfully used them.
   * Network with others who are deploying PKI in higher education and
     elsewhere.

PKI is a critical technology to address higher education's ever-increasing 
IT security requirements. Early adopters in higher education are finding 
that consulting and collaborating with each other are extremely helpful in 
minimizing the costs and hassles of deploying PKI. The PKI Deployment 
Summit seeks to facilitate this consultation and collaboration by bringing 
together PKI pioneers and committed early adopters and evaluators.

This Summit will help attendees learn how to harness PKI's full potential 
for campus cybersecurity. It will provide practical policy and technical 
information and guidance, real-life implementation experiences from 
acknowledged experts, and ample opportunities to discuss and plan solutions 
for specific challenges and roadblocks with PKI vendors and practitioners 
from higher education and industry.

For more information and to register, visit www.educause.edu/PKI05 .