Securing your data

A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, or root certificate, is a data file provided by a certificate authority (CA) that digitally identifies the sender, receiver, or both parties of a secure transaction. SSL certificates are installed on machines running FileMaker applications to provide secure connections between FileMaker Server and FileMaker clients.

FileMaker Server provides a standard SSL certificate signed by Claris International Inc. that does not verify the server name. The FileMaker default certificate is intended only for test purposes. A custom SSL certificate is required for production use.

To secure your data, you can take advantage of several FileMaker Server features:

Notes 

  • For more information about creating accounts that authenticate via an external server, see Claris Pro and FileMaker Pro Help and the Knowledge Base.

  • In FileMaker Pro, you can use the Database Encryption feature to encrypt the contents of a database file. FileMaker Server supports hosting encrypted databases. With FileMaker Server, the server administrator enters the encryption password when the file is opened for hosting. See Opening hosted files.