Chapter 6. Security Features and Troubleshooting

NetScaler often sits in front of large web services processing large amount of data; some of these services may contain credit card transactions or serve sensitive data. It is therefore crucial that NetScaler is properly configured to protect the data. Also, with this large amount of data going through the application we might be required to troubleshoot network traffic or a session in general.

The following are some of the subjects that we will go through in this chapter:

  • Management best practices
  • Protecting against DDoS attacks
  • SSL and TLS best practices
  • Admin partitions
  • Auditing and AAA
  • Citrix Insight Services

Management best practices for security

Before configuring NetScaler for any type of service, ...

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