About Secure Connections

When properly configured, Riverbed appliances keep your application and network traffic secure. To do this, appliances form trusted peering relationships and communicate with each other through secure inner channel connections. Similarly, appliances form secure outer channel connections to the servers and client endpoints from which they intercept traffic. Trust relationships among entities are built by verifying, validating, and authenticating each other’s identity using certificate authority (CA) certificates and certificate keys.

You can configure appliances to securely accelerate traffic using SSL/TLS and other secure protocols, traffic that does not use secure protocols, and IPsec traffic. SSL/TLS secures traffic at the transport layer where end-to-end connections between entities are established and maintained, such as communication between a client web browser and an application hosted on a data center server. IPsec is used to authenticate and encrypt traffic at the network layer between network devices, and to create virtual private networks (VPNs).