Digital
certificates are electronic documents that are used to create secure connections between
clients and servers or websites. A valid and trusted certificate ensures clients that
they are
connecting to a trusted server or website, and helps protect against man-in-the-middle
attacks.
Certificates become trusted by going through a validation process
of a Certificate Authority (CA). Certificate Authorities themselves are usually third-party
companies that are trusted by both the client and server or website.
You can manage
certificates in Deep Discovery Email
Inspector to enable
secure console access and SMTP communication in Transport Layer Security (TLS)
environments.
For more information about TLS, see Transport Layer Security (TLS).