Tagged: Certificates
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What UTM Actually Costs You: SSL/TLS Deep Inspection Internals on FortiGate
Certificate inspection reads the SNI and moves on. Deep inspection terminates the TLS session and re-signs the server's certificate with your own CA. What that costs in CPU, what it breaks in pinned apps, and why TLS 1.3 made the choice less optional.
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SSH Hardening Beyond the Basics: Certificate Authorities, Bastion Patterns, and Session Auditing
A production-grade SSH setup that goes beyond disabling password auth — running your own SSH CA with short-lived user and host certificates, ProxyJump bastions, ForceCommand restrictions, and recording sessions with tlog and auditd.
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NSE4 Part 4: Authentication, FSSO & Certificates
Part 4 of the NSE4 study series — local and remote authentication (LDAP, RADIUS), captive portal, Fortinet Single Sign-On (FSSO) modes, and certificate operations including SSL deep inspection.