Creating a DLL file to use with Secure Authentication API

This section describes the technical requirements for a DLL file to use with Secure Authentication API (SAA). SAA lets you use third- party authentication technologies with Remote Access Clients. When you configure SAA for a site, users authenticate to the site with an authentication scheme specific to your organization. For example, if your organization uses biometric authentication, users can use the same biometric authentication to authenticate to the site.

The DLL acts as the authentication agent and defines how the client gets the Third Party authentication information and what it does with the information. The file must implement and export the OPSEC API Functions listed in the next sections.

OPSEC - Open Platform for Security

Check Point's OPSEC integrates and manages all of network security through an open, extensible management framework. Third party security applications can plug into the OPSEC framework via published application programming interfaces (APIs). Once integrated into the OPSEC framework, applications can be configured and managed from a central point, utilizing a single Security Policy editor.