The MDM Hub uses a certificate-based authentication mechanism for securing the communication between the MDM Hub components and trusted applications. The authentication mechanism is also supported for the Services Integration Framework (SIF) and Business Entity Services APIs.
By default, the certificate login module considers Informatica applications, such as Data Director, to be trusted applications. To use the certificate-based authentication for external applications, you must register the applications as trusted applications.
An external application that is registered as trusted application passes the MDM Hub a concatenation of the application name and user name. For example,
IDD/admin
. The external application must also pass a security payload.
Ensure that you use a certificate or security payload-based authentication rather than basic authentication because basic authentication is not secure.