A.Vandenberg

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State of Georgia and PKI

• Art Vandenberg
• Director, Advanced Campus Services
• Information Systems Technology
• Georgia State University
• Avandenberg_at_gsu.edu

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GTA Mission

• Georgia Technology Authority (GTA)
• www.gagta.org
• Estab. July 2002 by Georgia General Assembly
• Set direction for the states use of technology
• Statewide policies and standards
• Oversees technology purchasing
• Reviews new technology projects
• Manages large projects

3
Governors vision for eGovernment

• Customer Focus
• Online Convenience
• New Infrastructure
• IT Reliability
• Privacy Security

4
Strategic Plan

• Initiative 1 State Government Portal
• DMV, Health Human Services
• Initiative 2 World-Class Telecommunications
  Infrastructure
• Local and long distance phone service
• Local area networks, desktop and portable
  computing
• Two-way video transmission
• Point-to-point video signal narrowcasts
• High-speed data transmissions, Internet access
• Mobile short messaging, including alphanumeric
  paging
• Distribution of television and radio broadcasts
• Two-way interoperable radio service
• Mobile data communications, wireless PC comm

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Strategic Plan

• Initiative 3 IT Reliable Utility
• New Data Center, Simplify Computing Platforms
  (standards)
• Leadership Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Standards for Interoperability
• Initiative 4 Assure Privacy Security
• Government as Trusted Partner
• HOPE Scholarship Case
• Centralizing Security
• Concerted Approach (SSN examples)
• Human Factors (awareness training not just
  hardware solutions)
• Security Common Sense

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E-Strategy Group(Standards) April 2002

• Operating System (O/S) - Desktop, Laptop/Notebook
• 32-bit operating system, GUI, Intel compatible
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Office Suite
• Microsoft Office XP Professional
• Electronic Mail Messaging
• Client Microsoft Outlook 2000
• Server Microsoft Exchange
• NOTE S/MIME should be integrated as soon as a
  security infrastructure is in place to handle
  public keys

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E-Strategy Group(Standards) April 2002

• Operating System File and Print Server
• Kerberos V5
• RFC 2131 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• X.509v3 Digital Certificates
• RFC 2136 Dynamic DNS
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Family

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E-Strategy Group(Standards) April 2002

• Network Services - Network Directory Services
• Protocol - X.500
• Support of LDAP version 3.
• IP based Domain Naming System
• Support for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  certificates (X.509)
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Justification
• Active Directory is the native directory for
  Windows 2000 network. A metadirectory will be
  used to tie Active Directory with other
  directories in the State.

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E-Strategy Group(Standards) April 2002

• Application Development Platforms
• Approved Standard(s)
• Java 2 Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft .NET
• Justification
• State of Georgia Enterprise Architecture is a
  service-based architecture dependent upon the web
  services protocol.
• At present only Java 2 Enterprise Edition and
  Microsoft .NET development platforms support web
  services for communication.

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Bumps in the Road

• July 12, 2002 - GTA seeks new Proposals
• Due to prospects of MCI WorldCom, Inc., one of
  two bidders on the project known as the Converged
  Communications Outsourcing Project (CCOP)
• So PKI still down the road

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Research EducationsRole

• University System loosely associated with GTA
• Not an administrative agency per se
• University System Office looks to research
  universities
• Cf. Georgia State University PKI
• NMI Integration testbed
• Shibboleth Statewide Libraries (EBSCO etc..)
• GRIDS and certificates
• PKI Lite
• S/MIME?
• Cf. Georgia Tech PKI
• CREN VPN

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E-Strategy Group(Standards) April 2002

• Application Development Platforms
• Approved Standard(s)
• Java 2 Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft .NET
• Justification
• State of Georgia Enterprise Architecture is a
  service-based architecture dependent upon the web
  services protocol.
• At present only Java 2 Enterprise Edition and
  Microsoft .NET development platforms support web
  services for communication.