SSL Communication

To ensure safety, the communication between the various components of Sentinel Cloud Licensing (SCL) platform happens over SSL (https):

>Cloud Connect web services and Cloud Directory Services

>Cloud Connect web services and Cloud Connect

NOTE   Refer to the Sentinel EMS and RMS Solution Guide for details on SCL components.

The communication between components is established only after the successful validation of a request. The secure communication channel prevents the following:

>Acknowledgment of any external data on each end

>Tampering of data in transit.

A server component authenticates itself to a client application by presenting the certificate issued by a public Certificate Authority (CA). All server-side components (Cloud Connect, EMS, and Directory Services) use certificates signed by a well-known public CA for authentication.

For further security, every request-response is authenticated by using the process of Message Signing, as explained in the next section.