Point-to-site authentication method: you upload a root certificate the gateway trusts, and every client proves itself with a client certificate issued from that root.
Also called Azure certificate.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Certificate authentication (P2S) in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Authentication
Checking an identity claim made by a person, device or app, for instance by asking for a password plus an extra factor. Authorisation only happens once this step has succeeded.
- Certificate
Key Vault object holding an X.509 certificate, whose associated key and secret are managed alongside it.