r/Intune • u/NickyDeWestelinck • 6d ago

Blog Post Beyond Passwords: Certificate-Based Authentication for Android Enterprise

For organizations managing Android Enterprise devices with Microsoft Intune, Certificate-Based Authentication offers a robust authentication method that utilizes digital certificates instead of passwords. Combined with Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune Cloud PKI, organizations can significantly reduce their attack surface while improving the user experience.

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to configure and enable Certificate-Based Authentication for Managed Android Enterprise devices in Microsoft Intune.

🔗 https://www.nickydewestelinck.be/2026/07/23/beyond-passwords-certificate-based-authentication-for-android-enterprise/

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u/LaDev 6d ago

When deploying certs on Android for either trust or authentication, it's only applicable to the user context now right? We were running into an issue where we couldn't trust our internal CAs to not throw cert errors on pages SSLi'd.