By default, Spotfire uses the HTTP protocol for communication between clients and Spotfire Server. To achieve a higher level of security, use the HTTPS protocol instead, ensuring encryption between clients and server.

HTTPS also includes a mechanism for clients to authenticate the server. To have the server authenticate the clients as well, you can enable X.509 client certificate authentication.

To enable encrypted communication using HTTPS, see Configuring HTTPS.

To enable X.509 client certificate authentication, start with Configuring HTTP and then proceed to Authentication using X.509 client certificates.

To configure the server for use with an HTTPS load balancer, see Terminating TLS in a load balancer or reverse proxy.