Security Console
This marks the development of not an application but a platform. The Security Console platform is the framework in which certificate enabled security applications can be easily created. The framework provides the ability to select and manage access control lists, query directory servers to locate a possible member of a group, enforce policies and perform network communications to look up certificate validity.
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 Why A Platform?
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Previously, the file encryption product and the virtual disk encryption product would require duplication of these key features. Considering that each application was developed by different teams and updated at different times the feature sets were never consistently up to date.
The important capability of private key access, including those on smart cards, has also been moved to the framework. This allows the users to take advantage of one spot configuration (or the automatic configuration) and allows the application developer to no longer have to worry about the number of possible ways to obtain, generate or access a private key.
Security Console is also the user interface. The file encryption application, and the virtual disk application have been ported to applets that run with in the framework.
