Appliance Access - HTTPS

Cyberoam offers a great way of controlling how the device is accessed, from which zone, what type of access, what type of services it offers…etc.

To access (Appliance Access) page, simply go to: System, Administration, Appliance Access.

Let’s take a look at the below picture for example, the client has two Vlans (Vlan 10 and Vlan 20), the other zones are pre-configured in Cyberoam. Let’s say that you want to allow Cyberoam to be accessed from the zone (Vlan20) using https access mode only, simply click on the tick next to Vlan20 zone, under HTTPS (Admin Services). If you left the other zones unticked, then whenever you try to access Cyberoam from Vlan10 or any other zone, the browser will keep searching for the entered URL and nothing will be displayed.

From my humble experience in network security and Cyberoam, I recommend allowing access to Cyberoam from LAN zone, using HTTPS access mode only. And to be able to access Cyberoam when you’re out of the office, you can allow HTTPS access for the zone VPN. This means that when you connect to your Company’s Network using the SSL VPN Connection, you can log in to Cyberoam and do any modifications or upgrades needed, such as the firmware upgrade – which should not be carried out during working hours hopefully - I will cover this topic in a future post.

I recommend not to tick any mark under HTTP access for any zone.

I will cover each service separately in a different post with more screen shots.

Thank you

Best Regards

Abed Jaber