Brian Komar

Brian Komar is the president of Komar Consulting Inc. in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Komar has worked in partnership with Microsoft over the past three years as a subject matter expert on network security and Windows 2000 Active Directory design. Over the past year, Komar has spent the majority of his time researching the deployment of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and the various technologies that depend on a PKI to provide authentication and encryption services. Between writing assignments, Komar speaks at industry conferences around the world, such as WinConnections, MCP TechMentor, Microsoft Tech Ed, and the Microsoft Enterprise Conference (MEC). He is known for delivering the “under the hood” sessions that look at the details of technology and reveal how systems really work in a network.


Sessions by this Expert

The Experts Conference for Directory & Identity USA 2010

  • Extending Certificate Enrollment Beyond Your Forest with Windows Clients
    Windows Server R2 introduces two new features that can help you streamline your PKI and reduce the costs associated with your PKI. The first new feature is the ability to issue certificates from a CA in a resource forest to users and computers ...

  • How to Not Screw Up Your PKI Development
    If you want to learn from the mistakes performed by others, this is the session for you. The session will look at the Top 10 most common deployment mistakes when deploying a PKI in your network. ...

  • Pre-Conference Workshop
    Get ready for a hands-on best practices installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 PKI. This half-day workshop will include: Discussions on private key protection for offline and issuing CAs Planning your revocati...