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Firewall

CyberGuard SG Administrative Web Server

Clicking the CyberGuard SG Web Server tab takes you to the page to configure the

administrative web server. This web server is responsible for running the Web

Management Console.

Here you can change the port on which the server runs. Additionally, the SG550, SG570

and SG575 models support SSL encryption to establish secure connections to the Web

Management Console web administration pages from SSL enabled browsers.

Figure 6-2

Note

Changing the web server port number is strongly recommended if you are allowing

Internet access to the Management Console. This will help hide the Management

Console from casual web surfers who type your CyberGuard SG appliance’s Internet IP

address into a web browser. Ideally, you should use Packet Filtering rules (see the

Packet Filtering section later in this chapter) to restrict who has access for remote

administration (i.e. allow connections on the administrative web server port from trusted

originating IP addresses only).