Chapter 5.  Securing Horizon View with SSL Certificates and True SSO

In this chapter, we will discuss the security aspect of VMware Horizon View 7, and in particular, how we deliver secure communication not only with the end user client, but also between the different View infrastructure components in the data center. To deliver this secure communication, we are going to look at two options.

We will start with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates and give an overview of what SSL is, before learning how to create/issue a certificate and configure Horizon View to use it.

The second option that will be covered in this chapter is True SSO. True SSO provides users a way of authenticating their virtual desktops that keeps all their usual domain privileges, ...

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