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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra single sign-on (SSO) integration with Evidence.com

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Evidence.com with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Evidence.com with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Evidence.com.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Evidence.com with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • Evidence.com single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

  • Evidence.com supports SP initiated SSO.

To configure the integration of Evidence.com into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Evidence.com from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
  3. In the Add from the gallery section, type Evidence.com in the search box.
  4. Select Evidence.com from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Alternatively, you can also use the Enterprise App Configuration Wizard. In this wizard, you can add an application to your tenant, add users/groups to the app, assign roles, as well as walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Evidence.com

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Evidence.com using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Evidence.com.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Evidence.com, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  2. Configure Evidence.com SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Evidence.com test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Evidence.com that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Evidence.com > Single sign-on.

  3. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  4. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, perform the following steps:

    1. In the Sign on URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<yourtenant>.evidence.com

    2. In the Identifier (Entity ID) text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<yourtenant>.evidence.com

    3. In the Reply URL textbox, type a URL using the following pattern: https://<your tenant>.evidence.com/?class=UIX&proc=Login

    Note

    These values are not real. Update these values with the actual Sign on URL, Identifier and Reply URL. Contact Evidence.com Client support team to get these values. You can also refer to the patterns shown in the Basic SAML Configuration section.

  6. On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Download to download the Certificate (Base64) from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. On the Set up Evidence.com section, copy the appropriate URL(s) based on your requirement.

    Copy configuration URLs

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
  3. Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
  4. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Display name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User principal name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example, B.Simon@contoso.com.
    3. Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
    4. Select Review + create.
  5. Select Create.

Assign the Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to Evidence.com.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Evidence.com.
  3. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
    1. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
    2. If you are expecting a role to be assigned to the users, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown. If no role has been set up for this app, you see "Default Access" role selected.
    3. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Evidence.com SSO

  1. In a separate web browser window, sign into your Evidence.com tenant as an administrator and navigate to Admin Tab.

  2. Click on Agency Single Sign On.

  3. Select SAML Based Single Sign On.

  4. Copy the Microsoft Entra Identifier, Login URL and Logout URL values shown in the Azure portal and to the corresponding fields in Evidence.com.

  5. Open your downloaded Certificate(Base64) file in notepad, copy the content of it into your clipboard, and then paste it to the Security Certificate box.

  6. Save the configuration in Evidence.com.

Create Evidence.com test user

For Microsoft Entra users to be able to sign in, they must be provisioned for access inside the Evidence.com application. This section describes how to create Microsoft Entra user accounts inside Evidence.com.

To provision a user account in Evidence.com:

  1. In a web browser window, sign into your Evidence.com company site as an administrator.

  2. Navigate to Admin tab.

  3. Click on Add User.

  4. Click the Add button.

  5. The Email Address of the added user must match the username of the users in Microsoft Entra who you wish to give access. If the username and email address are not the same value in your organization, you can use the Evidence.com > Attributes > Single Sign-On section of the Azure portal to change the nameidenitifer sent to Evidence.com to be the email address.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Evidence.com Sign-on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Evidence.com Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

  • You can use Microsoft My Apps. When you click the Evidence.com tile in the My Apps, this will redirect to Evidence.com Sign-on URL. For more information about the My Apps, see Introduction to the My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Evidence.com you can enforce session control, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real time. Session control extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.