You configure the Certificate (Cloud Deployment) authentication method from the Authentication Methods page in the Workspace ONE Access console, and then you select the authentication method to use in the built-in identity provider.

Prerequisites

  • Obtain the root certificate and intermediate certificates from the CA that signed the certificates presented by your users.
  • (Optional) List of Object Identifier (OID) of valid certificate policies for certificate authentication.
  • For revocation checking, the file location of the CRL and the URL of the OCSP server.
  • (Optional) OCSP Response Signing certificate file location.
  • Consent form content, if a consent form displays before authentication.

Procedure

  1. In the Identity & Access Management tab, go to Manage > Authentication Methods.
  2. In the Certificate (Cloud deployment) Configure column, click the pencil icon.
  3. Enable Device Compliance authentication and set the maximum number of failed login attempts. The other text boxes are pre-populated with the configured Workspace ONE UEM values.
  4. Configure the Certificate Service Auth Adapter page.
    Option Description
    Enable Certificate Adapter Select the check box to enable certificate authentication.
    *Root and intermediate CA certificates Select the certificate files to upload. You can select multiple root CA and intermediate CA certificates that are encoded as DER or PEM.
    Uploaded CA Certificates The uploaded certificate files are listed in the Uploaded CA Certificates section of the form.
    User Identifier Search Order

    Select the search order to locate the user identifier within the certificate.

    • upn. The UserPrincipalName value of the Subject Alternative Name
    • email. The email address from the Subject Alternative Name.
    • subject. The UID value from the Subject. If the UID is not found in the subject DN, the UID value in the CN text box is used, if the CN text box is configured.
    Validate UPN Format Enable this check box to validate the format of the UserPrincipalName text box.
    Request Timeout Enter the time in seconds to wait for a response. A value of zero (0) means that the wait for the response is indefinite.
    Certificate Policies Accepted Create a list of object identifiers that are accepted in the certificate policies extensions.

    Enter the object ID numbers (OID) for the Certificate Issuing Policy. Click Add another value to add additional OIDs.

    Enable Cert Revocation Select the check box to enable certificate revocation checking. Revocation checking prevents users who have revoked user certificates from authenticating.
    Use CRL from Certificates Select the check box to use the certificate revocation list (CRL) published by the CA that issued the certificates to validate the status of a certificate, revoked or not revoked.
    CRL Location Enter the server file path or the local file path from which to retrieve the CRL.
    Enable OCSP Revocation Select the check box to use the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) certificate validation protocol to get the revocation status of a certificate.
    Use CRL in case of OCSP failure If you configure both CRL and OCSP, you can select this box to fall back to using CRL if OCSP checking is not available.
    Send OCSP Nonce Select this check box if you want the unique identifier of the OCSP request to be sent in the response.
    OCSP URL If you enabled OCSP revocation, enter the OCSP server address for revocation checking.
    OCSP URL Source Select the source to use for revocation checking.
    • Configuration Only. Perform certificate revocation check using the OCSP URL provided in the text box to validate the entire certificate chain.
    • Certificate Only (required). Perform certificate revocation check using the OCSP URL that exists in the AIA extension of each certificate in the chain. Every certificate in the chain must have an OCSP URL defined, else the certificate revocation check fails.
    • Certificate Only (Optional). Only perform certificate revocation check using the OCSP URL that exists in the AIA extension of the certificate. Do not check revocation if the OCSP URL does not exist in the certificate AIA extension.
    • Certificate with fallback to configuration. Perform certificate revocation check using the OCSP URL extracted from the AIA extension of each certificate in the chain, when the OCSP URL is available. If the OCSP URL is not in the AIA extension, check revocation using the OCSP URL configured in the OCSP URL text box. The OCSP URL text box must be configured with the OCSP server address.
    OCSP Responder's Signing Certificate Enter the path to the OCSP certificate for the responder, /path/to/file.cer.
    Upload OCSP Signing Certificates The uploaded certificate files are listed in this section.
    Enable Consent Form before Authentication Select this check box to include a consent form page to appear before users log in to their Workspace ONE portal using certificate authentication.
    Consent Form Content Type the text that displays in the consent form in this text box.
  5. Click Save.

What to do next

  • Associate the Certificate (Cloud Deployment) authentication method in the built-in identity provider. See Configure a Built-in Identity Provider in Workspace ONE Access.
  • Add the certificate authentication method to the default access policy. See Managing Access Policies.
  • (On Premises deployments) When Certificate Authentication is configured, and the service appliance is set up behind a load balancer, make sure that the Workspace ONE Access connector is configured with SSL pass-through at the load balancer and not configured to terminate SSL at the load balancer. This configuration ensures that the SSL handshake is between the connector and the client to pass the certificate to the connector.