Mac OS X Lion Server For Dummies®

Chapter 18

Keeping Your Server Secure

In This Chapter

• Setting up firewalls
• Configuring Internet routers for port forwarding
• Creating and using SSL certificates
• Setting up virtual private networks

One aspect of managing clients is using server security to keep clients from compromising the network. Lion Server comes with tools to prevent snooping, malware, and malicious attacks. In other chapters, I describe password encryption with authentication, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) data encryption, the use of secure certificates, and spam and virus blockers for individual services, including file sharing, e-mail, and the web.

This chapter looks at overall issues, including using the firewall to guard access to the network and using and creating secure certificates for encryption. It ends with configuring a virtual private network to give offsite users secure access to the local network. You use the Server application to create and import certificates and set up a virtual private network. You use Server Admin to configure a firewall.