Enabling authentication

Increase the security of the connections between Cassandra nodes and Global Mailbox by enabling authentication. By default, authentication is disabled. When client authentication is enabled on the Cassandra cluster, a Cassandra server only allows connections from clients that present a key-certificate that is trusted by the server. In this way, only trusted clients can connect to the database, providing increased security. When server authentication is enabled, Global Mailbox clients only connect to Cassandra servers that they trust, increasing security.

The following topics explain how to enable authentication: