The Best Damn Firewall Book Period, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6. Authentication

Solutions in this chapter:

• Authentication Overview

• Users and Administrators

• User Authentication

• Session Authentication

• Client Authentication

Summary

Introduction

Using Check Point NGX, you can control the traffic coming into or going out of your networks. A good definition of your networks, hosts, gateways, and services allows you to have granular control of traffic through the Security Gateway. However, there are times when you will need or want to authenticate specific users that are accessing your resources.

For example, an administrator might have to download privileged files using a restricted user’s workstation, and would ...