SSL Certificate Management

What You Will Learn

• 1 Learn the fundamentals of SSL/TLS encryption and how certificates establish trust.
• 2 Understand the role of Certificate Authorities and the public key infrastructure (PKI) model.
• 3 Manage the complete certificate lifecycle: generation, issuance, deployment, renewal, and revocation.
• 4 Differentiate between Domain Validation (DV), Organization Validation (OV), and Extended Validation (EV) certificates.
• 5 Analyze the SSL/TLS handshake protocol to troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• 6 Configure certificates on popular web servers including Apache, Nginx, and IIS.
• 7 Implement monitoring and alerting systems to detect certificate expiration before outages.
• 8 Explore advanced certificate types: Wildcard, Subject Alternative Name (SAN), and EV certificates.
• 9 Apply security best practices to avoid common vulnerabilities like weak ciphers and expired chains.
• 10 Automate certificate management using tools like Certbot, ACME protocol, and custom scripts.