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System Security

This chapter describes the following Polycom® Distributed Media

Application™ (DMA™) 7000 system security topics:

Security Certificates Overview

Certificate Settings

Certificate Procedures

Security Settings

The Consequences of Enabling Maximum Security Mode

Login Policy Settings

Reset System Passwords

Security Certificates Overview

How Certificates Work

X.509 certificates are a security technology that assists networked computers in determining whether to trust each other.

A single, centralized certificate authority (CA) is established. Typically, this is either an enterprise’s IT department or a commercial certificate authority.

Each computer on the network is configured to trust the central certificate authority.

Each server on the network has a public certificate that identifies it.

The certificate authority signs the public certificates of those servers that clients should trust.

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