Which type of virtual server would you use to enable SSO to storefront via an external, secure, single URL?

• A. Load Balancing
• B. VPN
• C. Web
• D. Gateway

Answer: (D)

Providing external, secure access with a single sign-on to StoreFront requires a gateway entry point that handles authentication at the edge and then proxies the authenticated session to internal resources. A gateway virtual server is designed for this exact scenario: it exposes one external URL, terminates SSL, enforces authentication, and passes the authenticated session to StoreFront, enabling SSO across the storefront experience. This creates a seamless login once at the external URL and access to StoreFront without re-entering credentials, while applying the necessary access policies.

Load balancing vservers distribute traffic across back-end servers but don’t by themselves provide the edge authentication and single sign-on flow to internal apps. VPN vservers create a secure tunnel into the network, focusing on network access rather than delivering a browser-based SSO experience to StoreFront. Web vservers handle web traffic to applications but lack the built-in gateway features that deliver external SSO and centralized authentication.