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Avira Security Management Center

Avira GmbH

Activation of SSL server authentication:

Avira SMC supports signed SSL certificates for all its server applications, including 
Avira IUM Server. Avira IUM Frontend, as client application, supports SSL server 
authentication (more details on the SSL feature below).

5.7

SSL Certificates Management

SSL provides secure communication using data encryption and server/ client 
authentication. This means that before any information is exchanged, the client 
has to verify the true identity of the server and the server has to verify the true 
identity of the client. Then the communication peers can start exchanging 
encrypted information.

Avira SMC supports signed SSL certificates for all its server applications (Event 
Manager, IUM Server, SMC Server). SMC Server comes with a new tool that 
supports SSL certificate creation and deployment. The new SSL private keys and 
signed certificates are then stored in the 

SSL

 directory in SMC Server.

All SMC clients (SMC Agent, IUM Frontend, SMC Frontend) support SSL server 
authentication.

When you decide to create an individual certificate for your SMC Server and want 
the clients to authenticate the Server:

1. Create a certificate sign request (CSR) using the