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12.4 WWW Overview

The following figure shows secure and insecure management of the NWA coming in from the WAN.
HTTPS and SSH access are secure. HTTP, Telnet, and FTP management access are not secure.
Figure 68 Secure and Insecure Service Access From the WAN

12.4.1 Service Access Limitations

A service cannot be used to access the NWA when you have disabled that service in the
corresponding screen.

12.4.2 System Timeout

There is a lease timeout for administrators. The NWA automatically logs you out if the management
session remains idle for longer than this timeout period. The management session does not time
out when a statistics screen is polling.
Each user is also forced to log in the NWA for authentication again when the reauthentication time
expires.
You can change the timeout settings in the User screens.

12.4.3 HTTPS

You can set the NWA to use HTTP or HTTPS (HTTPS adds security) for Web Configurator sessions.
HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer, or HTTP over SSL) is a web protocol
that encrypts and decrypts web pages. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is an application-level protocol
that enables secure transactions of data by ensuring confidentiality (an unauthorized party cannot
read the transferred data), authentication (one party can identify the other party) and data
integrity (you know if data has been changed).
It relies upon certificates, public keys, and private keys (see
information).
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