Transitively authenticated reverse proxy

Abstract

Methods are provided for a proxy infrastructure that serves as a bridge between an enterprise network and a computing machine of a user ensuring a chain of trust. The methods involve obtaining, from a client device, a request to navigate to one or more target devices of a remote enterprise network and locally authenticating the client device based on at least one of an identity of the client device and user credentials. The methods further involve generating a connection request for the client device to navigate to the one or more target devices based on the client device being locally authenticated and providing the connection request to a proxy service executing in the remote enterprise network. The proxy service authenticates an access to the one or more target devices based on device credentials while hiding the device credentials from the client device.