CERT-MU in collaboration with Microsoft hosted a workshop on “Implementation of Digital Certificates at Enterprise Level” on 16th July 2009 at Swami Vivekananda International Conference Centre targeting Senior Executives and IT Professionals in public and private sectors. The objective of this workshop was mainly to explain the concept of Digital Certificates and ensure that organisations understand the growing importance of this technology. The main focus emphasized on the implementation of Digital certificates within enterprises. The official opening of the workshop was done by the Chairman of the National Computer Board, Mr Suraj Ramgolam who talked about the PKI implementation project under the NICTSP. Mr Dan Faugoo, Executive Director of the NCB, talked about the growing importance of the CERT with the various projects that are currently being deployed at National level.

The first intervention by Mr Vijay Mauree, Manager of PRD and CERT-MU, was about the CERT services. He talked about the underlying concepts that have lead to the setting up of CERT-MU in May 2008. He also explained the various services, both proactive and reactive, that CERT-MU currently provides to the constituency members which include ISPs, academia, private organization and law enforcement agencies. He emphasized on the collaboration with international stakeholders like other countries CERTS – UKCERT, HKCERT etc. Then Mr Sharvind Appiah, Assistant Manager of CERT-MU talked about the Information Security Incident Response practice. He gave an overview of the standard approach to incident response at organizational level explaining the various stages of the lifecycle. He also mentioned how CERT-MU provides incident response services to the constituency members for handling both incidents perpetrated locally as well as internationally. Finally, Mr Shamin Ramputh, Account Technology Specialist of Microsoft explained the concept of Digital Certificates and PKI. He briefly covered the main components of such system before giving a demo of how to use digital certificates at enterprise level to digitally sign and encrypt emails…