Making Your Network Secure; Securing Access To The Web Interface - 3Com SuperStack 3 3812 Implementation Manual

10
Securing Access to
the Web Interface
M Y
AKING
This chapter outlines the Port Security and Switch Management Login
features, explains the key benefits of using these features, and gives
examples of how and why you would use them in your network.
For detailed descriptions of the Web interface operations and the
Command Line Interface (CLI) commands that you require to manage the
Switch please refer to the Management Interface Reference Guide
supplied in HTML format on the CD-ROM that accompanies your Switch.
Your Switch supports HTTPS, allowing secure access to the Web interface
of the Switch.
If you adminster your switch remotely or over an insecure network, the
Switch can encrypt all HTTP traffic to and from the Web interface using
the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) of HTTP. If your network traffic is
intercepted, no passwords or configuration information will be visible in
the data.
To use HTTPS you need the following:
A browser that supports SSL
■
A digital certificate installed on the Switch
■
The Switch generates its own certificate the first time it is powered on.
This is the default certificate for the Switch. As it has not been validated
by a Certifying Authority your browser may warn you that certificate has
not been certified.
Once you have obtained a digital certificate and installed it, you will be
able to securely browse your Switch by using browsing
https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/
your Switch.
N
OUR ETWORK
where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of
S
ECURE