Protect connections with mTLS

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This feature is only available to select customers. Talk to your account team about eligibility.

The transport layer security (TLS) protocol is used to secure connections between a client and server. With a common TLS-secured web connection, only the client validates the identity of the server before allowing communications. With mutual TLS-secured (mTLS) web connections, both the client and the server validate the identity of one another, before allowing communication between the two. The client and server each present a TLS identity certificate to the other, with each side verifying the authenticity, during what's called the TLS handshake. Once verified, the identity information is used to authorize additional communication requests between the two.

You can create, manage, and activate certificate authority (CA) sets in Mutual TLS Edge Truststore. For details, see the Mutual TLS Edge Truststore user guide.