Title: (Optional) Explore a security certificate.
Course: Cybersecurity Operations, Advanced (10302-III) > Section: Implementing Security Operations

Exploration should include

- understanding the purpose and benefits of certificates and PKI
- describing how a certificate affects user security
- identifying how a certificate is used to encrypt data
- identifying how a certificate and/or key combination is used to decrypt a certificate file
- identifying types of certificates
- differentiating among certificate formats.