Introduction to Internal Certificate Authority and Secure Internal Communication
Both Internal Certificate Authority (IAC) and Secure Internal Communication (SIC) are related to the use of certificates. Let's take a look at them in the order of dependency.
Internal Certificate Authority
When the first management server is installed (and designated as the primary during Gaia First Time configuration Wizard), an ICA is created. ICA is responsible for the issuance, renewal, and revocation of certificates to all components of your Check Point infrastructure for SIC. ICA is additionally used to generate VPN certificates to gateways and clusters used for authentication between the same VPN community members, as well as user certificates for either internally managed users or users managed on LDAP servers.
Most operations of ICA are performed in SmartConsole objects' properties using one-click operations, including certificates for internally managed users. Additionally...