Set Up Authentication Using Custom Certificates
on WildFire Appliances and Clusters
Use custom certificates to establish a unique chain of
trust that ensures mutual authentication between a WildFire® appliance
and other Palo Alto Networks® firewalls and appliances
By default, a WildFire® appliance uses predefined certificates
for mutual authentication with other Palo Alto Networks® firewalls and
appliances to establish the SSL connections used for management
access and inter-device communication. However, you can configure
authentication using custom certificates instead. Custom certificates
allow you to establish a unique chain of trust to ensure mutual
authentication betweenyour WildFire appliance or WildFire cluster
managed by Panorama™ and firewalls. You can generate these certificates
locally on Panorama or the firewall, obtain them from a trusted
third-party certificate authority (CA), or obtain certificates from
enterprise private key infrastructure (PKI).
