mTLS vs OAuth 2.0 for Service-to-Service Authentication: A Technical Comparison
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Feed Name: Security Boulevard
Date Published: 2026-05-27
Date Updated: 2026-05-27
Author: SSOJet - Enterprise SSO & Identity Solutions
This technical blog post compares mutual TLS (mTLS) and OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials for service-to-service authentication, explains certificate-bound access tokens (RFC 8705) and DPoP (RFC 9449), and provides deployment guidance (including Istio configuration, RequestAuthentication/AuthorizationPolicy examples), threat-model considerations, and operational tradeoffs for adopting mTLS, OAuth, or both in zero-trust architectures.
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