{"revision":"c10276e953456835cdbb1f3a60d58ae1980be353","document":{"id":40449,"path":"platform-security/authentication/certificate-api-auth.md","title":"Certificate based authentication","bundle":null,"doc_type":null,"release":"australia","body":"\n# Certificate based authentication\n\nCertificate-based authentication lets you mutually authenticate inbound API requests using certificates from a trusted Certificate Authority \\(CA\\).\n\n-   **Certificate-based authentication for Inbound web services**\n\n    Authenticate inbound requests to ServiceNow SOAP and REST APIs. To set up mutual authentication for inbound web services, see [Set up Certificate-based authentication](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/certificate-based-authentication/set-up-mutual-auth.md).\n\n\n**Note:**\n\n-   Certificate Based Authentication is not supported on the On-Prem and edge encryption enabled instance.\n-   To enable Certificate Based Authentication on self-hosted instance, review this [KB article](https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1272738) and follow the instructions available in the **Native Certificate-Based Authentication** row within the table.\n\n.\n\n"}}