Secure and Efficient Certificate-Based Authentication

Security and privacy of user data are crucial for any organization and is also a major area of risk. So a Secure and Efficient Authentication (SEA) is very important.

How do you make authentication secure and efficient? Let me share some insights on how this can be achieved through certificate-based authentication…

In general, a certificate is a means of creating evidence. In the domain of identity and access management, a certificate creates evidence in the form of a digital signature to verify the identity of an individual, a company, or other entity, and associates that identity with a public key.

Like a driver’s license or passport, a certificate provides a generally recognized proof of a person’s identity. Certificates have one main purpose: to establish trust.

Authentication is the process that verifies that a user is who they say they are. So a certificate makes authentication more efficient because the identity cannot be changed.

By enabling the certificate-based authentication, it is possible to reliably evaluate the user’s right to access the requested resource.

How does it work?

1. First, the user enters their private password.
2. The client receives the private key, and creates an evidence – in this case, in the form of a certificate or digital signature.
3. Now, the client sends the evidence through a secured connection across the network.
4. The server uses the evidence to authenticate the user identity.
5. Finally, the server authorizes the evidence and allows access.

This brings us to the question of how to implement a certificate-based authentication in your organization.

Akku by CloudNow is a powerful and secure identity and access management solution that uses certificate-based authentication to control user identity and secure access to your environment. Learn more at www.akku.work
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