FortiSOAR Cloud version 7.0.2 supports client-based certificate authentication to create connections between FSR agents or tenants and secure message exchange. Thereby enhancing security by ensuring that only trusted clients can connect to the secure message exchange.

Prior to the 7.0.2 release, only basic authentication using username and password was used to create connections between FSR agents or tenants and secure message exchange was supported. Now, the following types of authentications are supported:

• Basic Authentication with Peer Verification: Uses username and password to create connections between FSR agent or tenant and secure message exchange, and also performs 'Certificate Verification'.
• Client Certificate Authentication: Presents a certificate to the server which is signed by a trusted CA, and which uses the Common Name (CN) as the username when an agent or tenant tries to connect with the secure message exchange.