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August 18, 2005
SSL
SSL is a means of transferring data securely. From the start with the new mail sever's web client I've had ssl running on the login portion.
Since we are supporting Outlook now; ( which uses the imap protocol ) I've also installed an SSL certificate on the mail server to secure imap mail.
LDAP is the other peice of the puzzle here which needed to be secured with SSL which is done now too.
Why is all of this important you may ask? Well because we're supporting Outlook. That's the answer. Many people asked why it was such a big deal to use other applications other than Messenger Express, and now Communications Express for your email? Well with Communications Express your logins are secure. The connection to the ldap server for address book lookups etc.. were all done on the protected server network so traffic was safe. But now that users are using Outlook the only way to make life secure is to use SSL.
This is quite important because of the single sign on. Same passwords for network, mail, portal, web etc..
Posted by knabet at August 18, 2005 08:42 AM
Comments
Excellent! I've been hoping for that since I got here.
Posted by: Chalres Anderson at September 16, 2005 12:16 PM
Shouldn't the web login (e.g. the new portal) use HTTPS since it is using the same user name and password?
Posted by: Charles Anderson at November 18, 2005 02:20 PM