User guide

Logging Out of a Remote Access VPN Site
658 Check Point Safe@Office User Guide
• Once the Safe@Office appliance has finished connecting, the Status field
changes to “Connected”.
• The VPN Login Status box remains open until you manually log out of the
VPN site.
Logging Out of a Remote Access VPN Site
You can manually log out of a VPN site, if it is a Remote Access VPN site configured for
Manual Login.
To log out of a VPN site
• In the VPN Login Status box, click Logout.
All open tunnels from the Safe@Office appliance to the VPN site are closed, and the
VPN Login Status box closes.
Note: Closing the browser or dismissing the VPN Login Status box will also terminate
the VPN session within a short time.
Using Certificates
A digital certificate is a secure means of authenticating the Safe@Office appliance to other
Site-to-Site VPN Gateways. The certificate is issued by the Certificate Authority (CA) to
entities such as gateways, users, or computers. The entity then uses the certificate to
identify itself and provide verifiable information.
For instance, the certificate includes the Distinguished Name (DN) (identifying
information) of the entity, as well as the public key (information about itself). After two
entities exchange and validate each other's certificates, they can begin encrypting
information between themselves using the public keys in the certificates.
The certificate also includes a fingerprint, a unique text used to identify the certificate. You
can email your certificate's fingerprint to the remote user. Upon connecting to the