Securing the ICA/HDX protocols
ICA is not secure by default. You can turn on a feature called SecureICA, which encrypts the ICA protocol; however, it does not perform data integrity checks, so you will eventually need to implement SSL for communications. We will go through SSL in the rest of this chapter.
To turn on the SecureICA feature, perform the following steps:
- Launch Studio.
- Select Delivery Groups in the left-hand side navigation menu.
- Select the delivery group to be edited in the center pane.
- In the right-hand side pane, click on Edit Delivery Group and then on End User Settings.
- Select Enable Secure ICA, as shown in the following screenshot:
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