Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance

PKI Technical Standards What follows is a comprehensive set of lists of applicable PKI standards. Notes:  Standards tend to migrate from one body to another, as they mature and become ratified and adopted by steadily bigger groups. Over time this can lead to redundant standards documents. For instance, most of the RSA Laboratories' PKCS series have been adopted by the IETF now; such standards can appear more than once in the lists below. A nearly complete compendium of information security standards was produced by APEC and is available from the Federal PKI Steering Committe website:  APEC Standards Handbook . Important PKI Standards Organisations The Major PKI Related RFCs Other PKI Related RFCs Other Cryptography Related RFCs Other Security and Crypto Standards ANSI Financial Industry PKI Standards ANSI Financial Industry PKI Standards IN DEVELOPMENT ISO PKI Standards PKCS Series Smartcard Standards & Guidelines European Electronic Signature Standard...

This article is from Microsoft knowledge base for enabling Smart Card or PIV card logon with Microsoft Active Directory. Though this article is for Windows 2000, it is continues to be relevant for Windows 2008 or 2012 servers. The third party certification authority or Certificate Authority (CA) is an entity that issues digital certificates. Examples of Certificate Authority, GlobalSign, Symantec, Entrust, Digicert etc. Third party CA is mentioned here to differentiate with the Microsoft's Certification Authority. If you are implementing Smart Card logon with a Microsoft CA then you need to refer to this document  and this doc , which provides how to configure Active Directory Certificate services. The below article provides all the information required in order to implement Smart Card Login to Active Directory. This enables a user to authenticate to an Active Directory with two factor authentication using a Smart Card, such as a PIV card thereby eliminating use of passwords to ...