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beingarif
Explorer III
February 11, 2025
Question

FortiSIEM: Support for Mutual TLS (Two-Way TLS) Between Collector and Supervisor?

  • February 11, 2025
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Hi Everyone,

I need assistance with the following query:

"A customer wants to establish mutual TLS (two-way TLS) authentication between their collector and our supervisor. Is this possible?"

Thanks in advance!

5 replies

beingarif
beingarifAuthor
Explorer III
February 12, 2025

@Anthony_E  @Secusaurus can you please help here...

 

Anthony_E
Staff
Staff
February 12, 2025

Hi Arif,

 

I hope you are doing well.

Sure, let me find somebody to answer.

 

Regards,

Best Regards
Secusaurus
Contributor III
February 12, 2025

Hi @beingarif,

 

I think, the closest you can get here is following this guide:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortisiem/7.2.5/configuring-ca-certificates/226157

 

I have to admit, I did not read through this, because I have not seen this kind of requirement in our implementations yet.

 

The main question behind that is "how can we improve security in the setup". I think, you should first go through this document: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortisiem/7.2.5/hardening-guide/582961

That's a lot do refine before trying to refine MITM-scenarios between Collector and Cluster.

 

Best,

Christian

NSE8 | Fortinet Advanced MSSP Partner
Anthony_E
Staff
Staff
February 12, 2025

Thank you @Secusaurus !

Best Regards
bhinangt
Explorer
June 22, 2025

We have implemented CA issued wildcard SSL Certificate in Supervisor, Worker and Collector and added host names in etc/hosts. Securing all to and fro communications with TLS yet not exposing servers by adding DNS record anywhere.

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