Integrating External Authentication Servers

The following subsections describe how to integrate the various supported authentication servers with FireWall-1.

Integrating SecurID

SecurID supports native ACE mode (a proprietary mechanism) and authentication via the RADIUS protocol. The following instructions apply to setting up native ACE mode.

WARNING!

Although FireWall-1 4.1 supported native ACE mode, versions of FireWall-1 NG prior to FP3 did not include full support for native ACE mode on all platforms. Check Point came out with a hotfix to FP2 on Solaris, Windows, and Linux that fixed several issues with SecurID authentication. Native ACE mode ...

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