Certificates and PKI

In some cases, SNS firewalls and the SMCserver need to use certificates for several purposes, including:

• The publication of the web administration interface in HTTPS,

• The authentication of administrators via certificate to access the SNS firewall's web administration interface,

• The authentication of users and gateways to set up IPsec VPN tunnels,

• The authentication of users and gateways to set up SSL VPN/TLS services,

• The connection to an external directory in LDAPS,

• The connection of SNS firewalls to the SMC server.