MacOS: Smart Card Passthrough

CMMC Space supports passing through smart card devices into the user's containerized workspace sessions. This feature enables users to use their physical smart cards within applications and systems, supporting various use cases such as PIN-based authentication, digital signing, and certificate-based operations.

This guide is specifically for Smart Card passthrough in the standard CMMC Space Chrome browser.

In order to utilize your Smart Card from a MacOS endpoint, you must use Google Chrome. Proceed with the following steps:

1. Download and install the Kasm Native Smartcard Client. The Kasm Native Smartcard Client can be downloaded here.

• The installer places the application in /Library/Application Support/Kasm/Smart Card Bridge/ and configures native messaging in /Library/Google/Chrome/NativeMessagingHosts/

2. Install the Kasm Workspaces Smart Card Extension from the Chrome Web Store

3.  Launch a CMMC Space session

The smart card should now be automatically detected and made available to applications within the environment.

Please use this visual guide to assist you in setting up your Smart Card passthrough.