About GlobalProtect Certificate Deployment

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(Recommended) Combination of third-party certificates and self-signed certificates—Because the GlobalProtect app will be accessing the portal prior to GlobalProtect configuration, the app must trust the certificate to establish an HTTPS connection.
Enterprise Certificate Authority—If you already have your own enterprise CA, you can use this internal CA to issue certificates for each of the GlobalProtect components and then import them onto the firewalls hosting your portal and gateway(s). In this case, you must also ensure that the endpoints trust the root CA certificate used to issue the certificates for the GlobalProtect services to which they must connect.
Self-Signed Certificates—You can generate a self-signed CA certificate on the portal and use it to issue certificates for all of the GlobalProtect components. However, this solution is less secure than the other options and is therefore not recommended. If you do choose this option, end users will see a certificate error the first time they connect to the portal. To prevent this, you can deploy the self-signed root CA certificate to all endpoints manually or using some sort of centralized deployment, such as an Active Directory Group Policy Object (GPO).