APC Battery Management System manual Authentication versus encryption

Battery Management System

USER’S GUIDE

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Authentication

Authentication versus encryption

You can choose to use security features for the Battery Management System that control access by providing basic authentication through user names, passwords, and IP addresses, without using encryption. These basic security features are sufficient for most environments in which sensitive data are not being transferred.

To ensure that data and communication between the Battery Management System and the client interfaces, such as the control console and the Web interface, cannot be intercepted, you can provide a greater level of security by using one or more of the following encryption-based methods:

•For the Web interface, use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

•To encrypt user names and passwords for control console access, use the Secure SHell (SSH) protocol.

•To encrypt user names, passwords, and data for the secure transfer of files, use the Secure CoPy (SCP) protocol.

For more information on these protocols for encryption- based security, see Secure SHell (SSH) and Secure CoPy (SCP) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

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