Defining inbound and outbound authentication strategies

Authentication is a key consideration when designing Power Platform integrations. The storage, retrieval, and life cycle of credentials are defined in the design documentation to ensure the implementation adheres to the best practices and the organization’s security requirements.

The authentication of Power Platform integrations may be split into two areas. The first concerns itself with inbound authentication, granting access to clients wishing to connect to the Power Platform APIs. The second is outbound authentication against external services or APIs and securely managing the credentials for those services.

Designing Power Platform inbound authentication strategies

Clients looking to connect to the DataVerse API must authenticate before being granted access. Two of the main ways of authenticating are by using standard Microsoft 365 users with access to a Power Platform environment and Azure application users...