Chapter 22. Deployment Issues and Decisions

The purpose of this chapter is to briefly discuss many of the issues an organization needs to consider before launching a PKI deployment. Most of these issues will also help an organization determine the best technology vendor (or service organization) available to meet its needs. As with most of Part III, "Deployment Considerations," the primary focus is on the enterprise PKI. Some of the enterprise issues to consider include

  • Trust models

  • In-source versus out-source

  • Build versus buy

  • Closed environment versus open environment

  • X.509 versus alternative certificate formats

  • Targeted applications versus comprehensive solution

  • Standard versus proprietary solutions

  • Interoperability considerations

  • On-line versus off-line ...

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