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title: "About Proxy Types"
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updated: 2026-11-09T16:54:56Z
published: 2026-11-09T16:54:56Z
canonical: "docs.senhasegura.io/pam-session-about-proxy-types"
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# About Proxy Types

This document provides information about what a proxy is, how it works, and the main types of proxies used by **Segura™ Platform**.

## What are proxy sessions?

These are sessions where the user accesses the device using a type of proxy provided by **Segura™ Platform** to access the desired device. This brings more security to access, considering that all activity, besides being recorded, will be subject to audit and pre-established actions by the administrator.

## Proxy functionality

To make the best use of proxies in **Segura™ Platform**, it’s important to understand that there are two types of connections happening during a session:

- A connection that originates from the user's workstation to the **Segura™ Platform** server.
- And another that goes from the **Segura™ Platform** server to the device the user wants to access. Always working as a bridge between the user and the target device.

Attention

It isn’t possible to authenticate via SSO in remote sessions via RDP and SSH proxies.

Info

- For the activities in this section, users can use any client of their choice, such as PuTTY, MobaXTerm, SecureCRT, Windows RDC, and others.
- After a request access to a session is made by a user and accepted by the approver, when the user starts the session a timer for the remaining time starts in minutes. In addition to the notification at the beginning of access informing the remaining time, 3 more notifications will be sent when there are 15 minutes left, 10 minutes, and 5 minutes. **Observation**: Only in **Web SSH**, **Web RDP** and **RDP Proxy** sessions this feature is active.
- **Segura™ Platform** performs authentication on the target device via its native protocols. This delivers an established session to the user while ensuring the sensitive credentials remain protected and unexposed.

## Types of sessions

- Database Proxy
- Web Proxy
- RDP Proxy
- Terminal Proxy
- RemoteApp
- Citrix Virtual App