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Digital Signatures, PKI and Encryption Key Management

As African organisations digitise contracts, payments and communications, they increasingly depend on certificates and encryption keys that are poorly understood and often mismanaged. This course demystifies public key infrastructure and teaches teams how to manage certificates and keys securely across their lifecycle. Delegates learn to prevent the outages and exposures caused by expired or mishandled keys.

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What you will be able to do

  • Explain how public key cryptography and digital signatures work.
  • Describe the components and trust model of public key infrastructure.
  • Manage certificates securely across their full lifecycle.
  • Protect and rotate encryption keys to reduce exposure.
  • Prevent outages caused by expired or misconfigured certificates.
  • Establish key and certificate management practices for the organisation.

Course outline

  1. 01Cryptography and Digital Signatures Explained
  2. 02Public Key Infrastructure Components
  3. 03Certificate Lifecycle Management
  4. 04Key Generation and Protection
  5. 05Key Rotation and Revocation
  6. 06Preventing Certificate Outages
  7. 07Building a Key Management Practice

Who should attend

IT administrators, security engineers and infrastructure staff responsible for certificates, encryption and secure communications.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendarRegister
28 to 29 Sep 2026Online2US$900Closed
9 to 10 Nov 2026Johannesburg2R10,000Register
10 to 11 Nov 2026Cape Town2R10,000Register
11 to 12 Nov 2026Durban2R10,000Register
12 to 13 Nov 2026Pretoria2R10,000Register
16 to 17 Nov 2026Windhoek2US$1,100Register
17 to 18 Nov 2026Gaborone2US$1,100Register
18 to 19 Nov 2026Maseru2US$1,100Register
19 to 20 Nov 2026Mbabane2US$1,100Register
23 to 24 Nov 2026Lusaka2US$1,100Register
24 to 25 Nov 2026Harare2US$1,100Register
25 to 26 Nov 2026Lilongwe2US$1,100Register
26 to 27 Nov 2026Blantyre2US$1,100Register
30 Nov to 1 Dec 2026Mozambique2US$1,100Register
1 to 2 Dec 2026Nairobi2US$1,100Register
2 to 3 Dec 2026Dar es Salaam2US$1,100Register
3 to 4 Dec 2026Kigali2US$1,100Register
7 to 8 Dec 2026Kampala2US$1,100Register
8 to 9 Dec 2026Accra2US$1,100Register
9 to 10 Dec 2026Lagos2US$1,100Register
10 to 11 Dec 2026Cairo2US$1,100Register
14 to 15 Dec 2026Mauritius2US$1,100Register
17 to 18 Dec 2026Dubai2US$1,100Register

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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