How do I authenticate my firewall?
Certificate authentication
With most firewalls you can use a public signed certificate or a self signed certificate for firewall authentication. If a firewall is public facing to anyone from the outside world it should be setup with a publicly recognisable certificate to authenticate itself to anonymous users.
What is authentication firewall?
Various authentication techniques can be supported by a firewall. In its most basic form, authentication means that a user is claiming to be who they say they are and is granted access to the resources for which they are authenticating.
What is significance of using firewalls and authentication?
While antivirus software helps to protect the file system against unwanted programs, a firewall helps to keep attackers or external threats from getting access to your system in the first place. Other threats travel from computer to computer without the knowledge of the user.
What is authentication in computer science?
Verifying the identity of a user, process, or device, often as a prerequisite to allowing access to resources in an information system.